JAP-baiting on campus. Jewish men: detoxifying our relationships. The passionate Yiddish poetry of Malka Heifetz Tussman. Reading the writing on the wall: German Jewish women who saw what was coming.
Table of contents Get the issueAnnouncing a new column where women can pose questions abut their own lives which they feel require halachic (Jewish legal) responses. The religious arbiters creating the answers will be all women scholars—a first!
June 1, 1947 Dear Clara:This evening they let vs go to a film. I’m not sure what it was because only ten minutes into it, a bell rang and the... Read more »
One of the Many gifted women of her generation writing in Yiddish, Tussman—who died last spring at 91—is remembered here by a younger poet. An added attraction: Falk’s translation of Tussman’s poetry.
Many Jews see themselves (and each other) as asexual and passionless. Ethnotherapist Perel tells us why these and other negative in-group images and ambivalent feelings about Jewish identity lead Jewish women and men to reject each other.
As the Nazis consolidated their power in the 1930’s, German Jewish women sensed the threat sooner and saw it as more dangerous than the men did. Historian Koonz sorts out the reasons.
Frigid/promiscuous, dependent/aggressive—-students grapple with the contradictions of the "JAP" myth. Plus: Francince Klagsbrun on why the anti-Semitic "JAP" stereotype is popular among Jews now.
How faculty, students, and administration responded to the spring offensive against Jewish women on one campus.
An epidemic of graffiti, an explosion of verbal abuse in public places, women afraid to stand up in a football stadium because of the catcalls. The place is the college campus. The target is the "Jewish American Princess."
Dear Editor: I read in the Summer 1986 LILITH the interview with Pauline Bart on rape with great interest. Her comments were pertinent and perceptive and it was a most... Read more »
