Mikhal Weiner
Creating a Jewish arts space in Brooklyn.
Creating a Jewish arts space in Brooklyn.
Parents break sometimes, and we put ourselves back together. But if we never see any stories of other people doing it, it makes us feel like monsters.
And it is truly intersectional. As a feminist, as a woman, and as a queer person of color, the campaign offers me and others like me an analysis that pushes against the distorted narratives we’ve been fed about the inevitability of poverty.
“I was so used to describing myself as a Russian. I equated being Russian with being Soviet. I discounted both my Jewish and Ukrainian identities. Why? Because I was brainwashed when I was a child. But in fact, I am not Russian. I am Jewish, Ukrainian and Australian.”
A 1942 novel about an Italian Jewish woman trying to survive the Holocaust with the family of farmers who take her in.
A Yiddish novelist who is brazen and frank about the unequal power dynamics between men and women in intimate relationships.
Author, editor and activist Nora Gold chats with Lilith Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough about her latest novel, her other professional “hats,” and what a “novel of ideas” entails exactly.