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Lilith Feature

Hair and Desire

In This Feature

poetry by Layle Silbert
Braids

poetry by Maxine Silverman
Hair

poetry by Yehuda Amichai
Ballad of the Washed Hair

poetry by Sharon Olds
Brushing Out My Daughter’s Hair

poetry by Siv Cedering Fox
Dead Women

poetry by Nancy Blotter
I’m Letting it Grow

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This Article Appeared In

Spring 1995

A special section on hair: wigs, upsherin, self-definition, minorities, Jewish law, and what it means to have Jewish hair.  A rediscovery of two matriarchs, Zilpha and Bilha.

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  • Hair and Desire Spring 1995

Independent, jewish & frankly feminist

Since 1976, Lilith magazine charts Jewish women’s lives with exuberance, rigor, affection, subversion and style.

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