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It’s May Day 🚩 dig into a treasure trove of fiery Jewish labor activists you may not have heard of—linked in our bio🔥
It’s May Day 🚩 dig into a treasure trove of fiery Jewish labor activists you may not have heard of—linked in our bio🔥
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Isaac Bashevis Singer is the one author by whom thousands of people the world over will measure both Yiddish literature and Jewish culture. But, as Evelyn Torton Beck persuasively argues in this 1979 article, the Nobel Prizewinner’s work is not only a distortion of the reality of East European Jewish life generally—but also permeated with a pernicious view of women as insatiable sexual predators.
Read this 💎 from our archives.
Isaac Bashevis Singer is the one author by whom thousands of people the world over will measure both Yiddish literature and Jewish culture. But, as Evelyn Torton Beck persuasively argues in this 1979 article, the Nobel Prizewinner’s work is not only a distortion of the reality of East European Jewish life generally—but also permeated with a pernicious view of women as insatiable sexual predators.
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Art: Betty LaDuke, "Oregon Summer Joy," from the cover of Lilith`s Winter 1997-1998 issue
Shabbat Shalom 💓
Art: Betty LaDuke, "Oregon Summer Joy," from the cover of Lilith`s Winter 1997-1998 issue
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