Category: Lilith Online

Jennifer S. Brown’s New Novel of Prohibition

Jennifer S. Brown talks to Lilith about her new historical coming-of-age novel, “The Whisper Sister,” and the universal, timeless feeling of displacement experienced by Jews across generations.

Collection

A life traced in Google searches and Hebrew words.

How Much Can a Heart Break in One Year?

Throughout this unspeakably long year, I have felt so many things — fear, horror, helplessness, rage, indignation, despair, desperation, isolation, loneliness — and now, finally, it has settled in my chest and belly as an ocean of grief. 

Poem: Calling Congress

Hello, my name is Shame and I am your constituent. My voice is hoarse on your answering machine. Do you really decide who will live and who will die by tally?

Poem: L’dor v’dor

We are strangers here together/ where we place these stories in the open/ mouths of paper bags.

Poem: Do Not Allow a Witch to Live

Torah shouts: all women who practice witchcraft must be put to death! Talmud reports: rabbinic sages believed their wives all practiced witchcraft.