Search Results - "Bridges (Seattle, Wash.)"
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The Uses of Language
Published in Bridges (Seattle, Wash.) (01-04-2011)“…The documents I collected for use as annotation to the correspondence (newspaper articles, decrees, laws, and immigration policies), reveal that however this…”
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They Wrote about Everything: Women and Yiddish
Published in Bridges (Seattle, Wash.) (01-04-2011)“…Faith: I do a lot of different kinds of political activism, and part of what I love about the Yiddish work is its grounding in a historical culture that was…”
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Legends and Legacies from Denver to Berlin
Published in Bridges (Seattle, Wash.) (01-04-2011)“…Memorial plaques, permanent, temporary and travelling exhibitions, museums of death and deportation, sites of terror, halls of horror... From the roof of the…”
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Conversations Begin with Questions
Published in Bridges (Seattle, Wash.) (01-04-2011)“…Return Turning in turning over turning in and over the sound of rabbinical repetition echoes down the well of my past the well of my body vibrates in the deep…”
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Family Skeletons: Writing about the Living and the Dead
Published in Bridges (Seattle, Wash.) (01-04-2011)“…Ironically, that contract marriage brought my grandmother to America and saved her from the fate of her mother, sister and nieces, who all died in Auschwitz…”
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Poetry: Music, Patience and Form
Published in Bridges (Seattle, Wash.) (01-04-2011)“…Terry: I embrace your notion that "poetry is of the spirit, and so what is devalued or has little monetary value placed on it in American society, actually…”
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Straddling Worlds, Bringing Your Whole Self
Published in Bridges (Seattle, Wash.) (01-04-2011)“…First of all, I think I must address my condition as a Jewish woman. [...] after years of doing the external work required of me, the things others defined as…”
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Attack of the Killer Krows: Hitchcock'sThe BirdsandThe Book of Ruth
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Familiar Strangers
Published in Bridges (Seattle, Wash.) (01-04-2011)“…From "Listening to Isabel Allende While Driving" I am driving home from the fertility clinic where I've given blood and been entered a thousand times, the…”
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Why Write Poetry?
Published in Bridges (Seattle, Wash.) (01-04-2011)“…[...] there's the love of the words themselves, the music, the sound of the consonants as they tip and clank and roll against each other, and the vowels, how…”
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Art, Aging and Legacies
Published in Bridges (Seattle, Wash.) (01-04-2011)“…When I was married, living in suburbia, my husband was a "macher"-cantor/Sunday School teacher at the local Conservative synagogue and I spotlighted the…”
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Translations Tel Aviv to Toronto
Published in Bridges (Seattle, Wash.) (01-04-2011)“…Since we have been translating each other's work for some time now (mine into Hebrew and yours into English), I have begun to wonder whether our differences…”
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Discovering Jewish Feminism a Generation Apart
Published in Bridges (Seattle, Wash.) (01-04-2011)“…In high school at our Reform shul (which I had asked to attend after bat mitzvah) the new rabbi managed to really irritate me by informing our class that women…”
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Older and Wiser
Published in Bridges (Seattle, Wash.) (01-04-2011)“…Nina, a graduate student at Cornell and Amy, a Cornell Visiting Scholar were given my name when they asked about meeting Jewish feminists in the Ithaca…”
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A Congenial Anarchy: An Affirmation of Jewish Feminist Space
Published in Bridges (Seattle, Wash.) (01-04-2011)“…Even though I was accepted to UC, my father insisted that Berkeley was too tumultuous, too far away (it was an hour-long bus ride across the Bay), and insisted…”
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Reversing the Gaze
Published in Bridges (Seattle, Wash.) (01-04-2011)“…Much of my work on Jewish history is shaped by my immersion in women's studies and feminist theory. In my recent book, The Aryan Jesus, I look at racial theory…”
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Choosing Life
Published in Bridges (Seattle, Wash.) (01-04-2011)“…In the Spring/Summer 1992 issue of Bridges Ruth interviewed Judith Masur and her partner, Jessica Barshay, about what it was like to live with a disbelieved…”
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African American Jewish Women—Life beyond the Hyphen
Published in Bridges (Seattle, Wash.) (01-04-2011)“…Resisting the urgency that often underlies questions people seem to need to ask me at first glance, like "How are you Jewish?" helps me to see my experience in…”
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FROM THE EDITOR
Published in Bridges (Seattle, Wash.) (01-04-2011)“…[...] in the late fall I was ready to write to the 500 or so names I had put together with this proposal: I'd like to publish conversations between Bridges…”
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Talking aboutLoss after the Holocaust
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