Author : Leah Napolin
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 46,35 MB
Release : 1977
Category : American drama
ISBN : 9780573618420
Tells the story of an Ashkenazi Jewish girl in Poland who decides to dress and live like a boy so that she can receive an education in Talmudic law after her father dies.
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Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 17,71 MB
Release : 1983-11-28
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ISBN :
New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
Author : Danya Ruttenberg
Publisher : Seal Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 25,93 MB
Release : 2001-10-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781580050579
A diverse group of young women--from witches to rabbis--explore the new Judaism. Contributors ponder Jewish transgenderdom, Jewish body image, Jewish punk, the stereotype of the Jewish American Princess, intermarriage, circumcision, faith, and intolerance.
Author : Daniel Boyarin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 40,22 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780231113748
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Author : Warren Hoffman
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,37 MB
Release : 2008-11-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780815632023
Tony Kushner’s award-winning epic play Angels in America was remarkable not only for its sensitive engagement of Jewish-American and gay culture but also for bringing these themes to a mainstream audience. While the play represented a watershed in American theater and culture, it belies a hundred years of previous attention to queer Jewish identity in twentieth-century American literature, drama, and film. In The Passing Game, Warren Hoffman sheds light on this long history, taking up both Yiddish and English narratives that explore the tensions among Jewish identity, queer sexuality, performance, and American citizenship. With fresh insight Hoffman examines the 1907 Yiddish play God of Vengeance by Sholem Asch, the cross-dressing films of Yiddish actress Molly Picon, and several short stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer. He also analyzes the English-language novels The Rise of David Levinsky (Abraham Cahan), Wasteland (Jo Sinclair), and Portnoy’s Complaint (Phillip Roth). Hoffman highlights the ways in which the characters in these canonical texts attempt to "pass" as white, straight, and American in the early and mid-twentieth century. This pioneering work is a welcome contribution to the study of Jewish American literature and culture.
Author : Sol Steinmetz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 32,50 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780742543874
Dictionary of Jewish Usage: A Guide to the Use of Jewish Terms is a unique and much needed guide to the way many Hebrew, Yiddish, and Aramaic words and meanings are used by English speakers. Sol Steinmetz draws upon his years of dictionary editorial experience, as well as his lifelong study of Jewish history, traditions, and practices, to guide the reader through the essentially uncharted territory of Jewish usage. Dictionary of Jewish Usage clarifies the meanings of Jewish terms that have been absorbed into English, as well as the transliterated Hebrew terms from sacred texts that reflect differing pronunciations. The Dictionary also explains terms that are often misused, sheds light on the meaning of clusters of terminology, and delineates the etymology and pronunciation of many words, making this Dictionary an invaluable guide for anyone curious about Jewish usage.
Author : Joyce Antler
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,87 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780874518429
Essays that discuss the portrayal of Jewish women in American culture.
Author : Michel Legrand
Publisher : Warner Bros. Publications
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 35,68 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Music
ISBN :
Includes eight pages of full-color photos from the film. Titles are: Where Is It Written? * Papa, Can You Hear Me? * This Is One of Those Moments * No Wonder * The Way He Makes Me Feel * No Wonder (Part Two) * Tomorrow Night * Will Someone Ever Look at Me That Way? * No Matter What Happens * No Wonder (Reprise) * A Piece of Sky.
Author : Inga Muscio
Publisher : Seal Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 35,95 MB
Release : 2002-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580050753
An ancient title of respect for women, the word “cunt” long ago veered off this noble path. Inga Muscio traces the road from honor to expletive, giving women the motivation and tools to claim “cunt” as a positive and powerful force in their lives. In this fully revised edition, she explores, with candidness and humor, such traditional feminist issues as birth control, sexuality, jealousy between women, and prostitution with a fresh attitude for a new generation of women. Sending out a call for every woman to be the Cuntlovin' Ruler of Her Sexual Universe, Muscio stands convention on its head by embracing all things cunt-related. This edition is fully revised with updated resources, a new foreword from sexual pioneer Betty Dodson, and a new afterword by the author. “Bright, sharp, empowering, long-lasting, useful, sexy....”—San Francisco Chronicle “... Cunt provides fertile ground for psychological growth.”—San Francisco Bay Guardian “Cunt does for feminism what smoothies did for high-fiber diets—it reinvents the oft-indigestible into something sweet and delicious.”—Bust Magazine
Author : Sally Fingerett
Publisher :
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 33,61 MB
Release : 2015-04-10
Category :
ISBN : 9780996149457
This hilarious memoir, by Sally Fingerett, tells the tale of a free spirited musician and touring member of the original musical comedy theatre troupe THE FOUR BITCHIN' BABES. Traveling the country for 25 years, performing on over eight hundred stages, Sally, wanted it all--husband, kids, and career, even though she became the designated daughter to a manic-depressive mother. In this heartwarming book, she offers a view from the bridge between living life and creating art from it. In these tales, she shares those everyday moments women experience, as seen through her distinctly funny viewfinder. This "Jewish girl born on Christmas Day," comes from a long line of medicated women. Wild and crazy, genuine and caring, these Medicated Matriarchs handed down to this traveling Gypsy-Singer, their big thighs, their love of family, and their wackadoodle DNA. As a self-proclaimed "student of crazy," Sally compiled a heartwarming collection of forty essays, three family SECRET recipes, and the lyrics to thirty-three of her best loved songs, each following the story they're connected to. ALSO available (sold separately) is the companion double disc anthology CD set of those 33 songs, titled The Mental Yentl, Songs from a Lifelong Student of Crazy.
