Lost on the Map of the World : Contemporary

<> explores Jewish-American women's enduring quest from ca. 1890 to the present to find a home(land) where they can have a Jewish identity and still enjoy gender equality. Originally, many were torn between obedience to confining patriarchal tradition and the attractions of an upwardly mobile secular lifestyle. Others opposed all traditional patriarchal constraints against women everywhere and engaged in political activism to improve the quality of all lives, not only their own. In contrast, many <> Jewish-American women have succeeded in integrating feminism into their Jewish identity, although they have so far failed in their quest to do so in Israel.

Phillipa Kafka, Professor Emerita and former Director of Women's Studies, Kean University in Union, New Jersey

Preface

xi

Introduction

1

(4)

Part One: After the Pogroms and the Holocaust, ca. 1890-1945

5

(82)

A Willing Embrace of the Shadow: Cultural and Textual Hybridity in Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers

7

(18)

Philippe Codde

Return to Poland

25

(62)

Barbara Finkelstein

Part Two: Into the Feminist Movement, ca. 1950-1980

87

(68)

``O, my Shehena who shall live in your tent?'': Gender, Diaspora, and the Ambivalence of Return in E. M. Broner's A Weave of Women

89

(28)

Ranen Omer-Sherman

From Pariah to Professor Emerita

117

(22)

Phillipa Kafka

Written in and Read out: Why Erica Jong's Fear of Flying was not Considered ``Jewish Writing''

139

(16)

Tobin Belzer

Part Three: The ``New Wave'': ca. 1980-

155

(98)

Narrative from the Field

157

(22)

Batya Weinbaum

The Candelabra and the Typewriter

179

(6)

Batya Weinbaum

Searching for God in the Sierra

185

(18)

Ruth Knafo Setton

Selections from Drawn from Water

203

(50)

Dina Elenbogen

About the Contributors

253

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Lost on the Map of the World : Contemporary American Jewish Women's Quest for Home in Essays and Memoirs, 1890-Present

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