Jewish Mothers Tell Their Stories: Acts of Love and CourageWinner of the Women in Psychology Jewish Caucus Award for 2000!Jewish Mothers Tell Their Stories: Acts of Love and Courage contains touching and personal essays written by contemporary Jewish mothers from different parts of the globe. Their stories reveal the choices that Jewish mothers make in our post-Holocaust, non-Jewish world--the many ways of being Jewish, the acts of loving, of preserving and celebrating Jewish traditions and spirituality, and of transmitting them to their children and families. The firsthand stories in this compelling book raises questions and provides you with insight into a variety of topics, including:
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Contents
From Generation to Generation | 9 |
How I Learned to Be a Jewish Mother | 15 |
Traditions | 21 |
My Mother Is Greek | 33 |
Mandelbrot Rugelach and a Family Quilt | 41 |
Unbinding Love | 51 |
How a Paper Clip Changed Our Lives | 61 |
On Mourning for SoldierSons in Israel | 71 |
Learning to Speak German | 175 |
Washing Down the Chalk | 187 |
While My SixteenYearOld Daughter Visits Auschwitz | 191 |
A Long Circular Journey | 193 |
A Life in Code | 201 |
You Will Teach Your Children Diligently | 211 |
Beresheet in the Beginning | 213 |
On Carving a Life | 217 |
On My Sons Induction into the Israeli Armed Forces A Feminist Mothers Prayer | 83 |
Jewish Mother and Son The Feminist Version | 87 |
If I Cant Tear the Toilet Paper Why Can I Flush the Toilet? | 97 |
On the Other Hand | 105 |
Old Clothes and Food from Afar | 115 |
My Journey Toward Jewish Identification | 119 |
Am I a Jewish Mother? | 131 |
Conversion The Mother of Invention | 137 |
A Wandering Mother | 145 |
Jewish Mother from Scratch | 159 |
How ModernDay Austria Made Me a Modern Jewish Mother | 163 |
Integrating Feminism Judaism and Spirituality | 223 |
Seeking Serenity As a Single Jewish Mother | 233 |
Oranges and Cinnamon | 239 |
Dealing with the Real World Our Children Ourselves | 247 |
No More Family Secrets | 257 |
If Id Known How to Be a Jewish Mother I Would Have Been One | 267 |
Chopped Liver and Sour Grapes Jewish but Not a Mother | 273 |
My Two Lives | 281 |
Glossary | 291 |
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Jewish Mothers Tell Their Stories: Acts of Love and Courage Rachel Josefowitz Siegel,Ellen Cole,Susan Steinberg-Oren No preview available - 2000 |
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A Space of Her Own: Personal Narratives of Twelve Women Leela Gulati,Jasodhara Bagchi No preview available - 2005 |