Yona Zeldis McDonough
A novel about generational trauma and how it affects both the present and the future.
A novel about generational trauma and how it affects both the present and the future.
Our history is more beautiful, complex, tragic, and miraculous than can be covered in a lesson, a bulletin board, or in a month.
Emily Franklin is back, this time with her first collection of poetry, Tell Me How You Got Here (Terapin Books) and she chats with Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough about the many and varied sources of her inspiration.
My Jewish farming journey pointed me back home to the South, and made me long to put down roots in the place that, as a Jewish teenager, I could not wait to leave.
The Foundation’s first Executive Director, Marissa Neuman Jachman, spoke to Lilith about Levitas, the Foundation’s important work, and the challenges of addressing volatile social issues.
We sat side by side, but did I ever tell her that her music is the soundtrack of my Jewish experience?
While my tears flowed and the moment felt surreal, my five-year-old asked me if Elsa from Frozen is real.
Perhaps we can create our own seven species… qualities for this time to help us focus on what we need to find in abundance within ourselves.
My whole pre-teen and teenage life, I watched films and television shows and thought, “Where am I?” Never before had I seen a girl with a subway map of scars on her body get the guy of her dreams. I had never seen a girl who used a walker be the prom queen.