Mona Zeldis McDonough
National Jewish Book Award Winner Lauren Belfer on her most recent novel, “And After the Fire.”
A Novel Invents a Musical Masterpiece
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A Jewish Beauty’s Journey, in Fiction
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Lilith’s fiction editor converses with Susan Dworkin about her new book, “The Garden Lady,” as well as Ms. Magazine and being confused with Andrea Dworkin.
Standing Up for Immigrant Families, One Case at a Time
Eleanor J. Bader
I was horrified by what I saw and, in the middle of the hearing, I jumped into the center aisle, raised my hand, and asked the judge if she would grant a continuance so that I could find an attorney for this child.
A Breathtaking Novel Set on the Eve of World War I
Yona Zeldis McDonough
The fictional Goldbaums are similarly powerful and almost unimaginably wealthy, but unlike most of the aristocrats in Europe at the time their wealth is earned. They are more like the American industrialists or new money, and were considered by many as gauche and bourgeois, viewed with even more intense suspicion by the establishment because of their Jewishness. To me, that makes the Goldbaums interesting – to be both singularly powerful, intricately involved in international affairs and needed by governments and emperors, and yet still be vulnerable and isolated.
Jill Smolowe on Four Funerals and a Wedding
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Jill Smolowe, a journalist and memoirist, had her own annus horribilis, only hers lasted a year and a half.
Jewish Woman, Muslim Man, and What This Unlikely Literary Pairing Produced
Yona Zeldis McDonough
A Jewish woman collaborates on a book with a Muslim man? Sounds like the start of a joke—except that it’s anything but.
“I Wanted to Be Pat Boone’s Daughter.”
Chanel Dubofsky
In my child-mind, he was the ideal of what a father should be: someone nurturing, caring, safe.
Busting Open the Good Mother Myth
Sarah M. Seltzer
The good mother. She bakes her own challah and breastfeeds.
Winning Any Office (or Male-Dominated Environment)
Danica Davidson
A step by step guide on how women can achieve their issue goals by becoming politically influential.
Print is Dead
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Print is dead, or so the pundits have been telling us. And yet, in this electronic age when reading matter has been whittled down to fit on a smart phone, along comes Fig Tree Books, a brand new print publisher whose focus is the Jewish American experience.