Astonished when her seemingly devoted husband is found murdered in a prostitute's apartment, Susie, a mother of four-year-old triplets, bristles at her neighbors' mixed reactions and tackles everyone from her husband's partners to the DA to restore her family's honor.
Contains "A Jewish Mother from Berlin," in which Martha Jadassohn combs the seedy areas of Berlin looking for the man who raped her five-year-old daughter, and "Susanna," a novella telling of Sussanna's search for her lost lover in 1920s Berlin.
When Judith, the daughter of a high priest of Solomon, decides to write the scriptures which had always been told orally, she confronts Jewish practices, particularly as applied to women.
the awkwardly true and dazzling adventures of a Jewish Cubana goddess
Anders, Gigi
2005
Gigi Anders describes the challenges of growing up as a Jewish Cuban girl in the United States, focusing on her relationship with her eccentric mother.
A group of creative young women discuss what it was like to grow up in the shadow of their parents' Holocaust ordeal and how they incorporated that legacy into their work.