Gwen Tucker
Just in time for end-of-year reading and Hanukkah gift-giving, we’ve compiled this comprehensive list of some of our favorite reads of 2023 – perfect for Jewish feminists of all ages!
Eighteen Books Lilith Loved This Year
Tag: Feminist Books
Maggie Anton’s New Novel of the Talmud
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Author Maggie Anton—who wrote the acclaimed trilogy Rashi’s Daughters—talks about how her new novel, “The Choice,” both exposes and dismantles gender inequities.
5 Classic Novels for Jewish Feminists
Chloe Rose Stuart-Ulin
For your reading pleasure, some fiction written by women of different feminist eras, all of whom set out to depict women in historical moments ranging from Biblical to 70s suburbia.
12 New Books About Contemporary Jewish Identity — All by Women!
Elana Rebitzer and Lilith Staff
The cover of the New York Times Book Review this weekend features a review of 5 recent books detailing the American Jewish experience — all of which were written by men. We’ve aggregated 12 books written by women (not just academics, by the way) that address these urgent issues–all published since 2017.
Dana Schwartz on Humor, Rejecting the “Guilty Pleasure” Label and Terrible Jews
Sarah M. Seltzer
We as a culture need to take a step back and ask ourselves why “guilty pleasure” is a way we write about women’s books, as if women should be ironically ashamed by things that are associated with women.