Her Face in the Mirror
Jewish Women on Mothers and Daughters
Boston : Beacon Press, ©1994.
Format: Book
Description: xix, 314 pages ; 24 cm
"Relationships between mothers and daughters are exceptionally complex for all women. An uneasy balance between the fear of letting go and the desire for independence, the love shared between mothers and daughters can be volatile, tender, and exasperating." "Her Face in the Mirror explores this most difficult and affirming relationship in the lives of Jewish women through poems, stories, and personal essays. Daughters, many of them first- and second-generation Americans, write of frustration with what they see as their mothers' limited lives; their mothers write of fears for their daughters whose lives seem so different from their own. For many the relationship is shaped by the feeling of being an outsider - as a Jew in America and a woman in Judaism - and it is always informed by the collective memory of the Holocaust." "With passionate and resonant words, these writers search to be reconciled with their mothers and daughters and, ultimately, with their own identities. An extraordinary collection, Her Face in the Mirror is destined to become a classic."--Jacket.
Contents:
Brit Kedusha / Jody Bolz -- Borrowing the Knot / Karren L. Alenier -- Poker / Joan Seliger Sidney -- Lines of Work / Jody Bolz -- Matrushka Dolls / Judith Harris -- Happy Birthday / Alicia Suskin Ostriker -- Survivor / Barbara Goldberg -- There Was My Very Scary Mad Period / Sandra Bernhard -- Family Feelings / Judith Viorst -- Old Pros / Patricia Volk -- Our Wounded / Shirley Latessa -- Lovingkindness / Ann Roiphe -- Only a Phase / Leslea Newman -- The Bad Mother / Jane Shore -- The Dress / Rachel Pastan -- Selfish / Phyllis Koestenbaum -- Plastic Flowers / Carole L. Glickfeld -- On Rockawalkin Road / Jean Nordhaus -- Listening to Myself on My Daughter's Message Machine / Betty Buchsbaum -- Plumbing / Ada Jill Schneider -- In My Mother's House: Epilogue / Kim Chernin -- Surviving / Alicia Suskin Ostriker -- Pocahontas in Camelot / Maxine Rodberg -- Poland, 1944: My Mother Is Walking down a Road / Irena Klepfisz -- Garden / Nadell Fishman -- Belonging / Judy Goldman -- Fruit Cellar / Enid Dame -- No Returns / Ruth Behar -- A Life / Chana Bloch -- Burglars in the Flesh / Lore Segal -- The Daughter of Survivors / Hilary Tham -- Pantoum for the Children, So They Will Know Yiddish / Judy Goldman -- The Fish / Lila Zeiger -- Birthing / Kate Simon -- Gifts / Irena Klepfisz -- The Thousand Islands / Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- Talking Back / Chana Bloch -- Fierce Attachments / Vivian Gornick -- What Good Is a Smart Girl? / Meredith Tax -- Tropical Aunts / Enid Shomer -- The Different Landscape / Margaret Klee -- Looking for Tamerlane / Jodi Daynard -- To a Daughter Leaving Home / Linda Pastan -- L'Dor v Dor: From Generation to Generation / Jyl Lynn Felman -- Mother, I Hardly Knew You / Letty Cottin Pogrebin -- Second Person / Yona Zeldis McDonough -- My Daughter the Cypress / Ruth Whitman -- Preserves / Joan Seliger Sidney -- Home for Winter / Marcia Falk -- The Chain / Maxine Kumin -- The Ribbon / Robin Becker -- Yahrzeit / Enid Dame -- Mother / Grace Paley -- A Leak in the Heart / Faye Moskowitz -- My Mother's Obituary / Lyn Lifshin -- Gifts / Deena Linett -- You Never Can Tell / Susan P. Willens -- Autumn 1980 / Marilyn Hacker -- Collecting Herself / Peggy Shinner -- There / Myra Sklarew -- Journey to the Mirror / Myra Sklarew -- Pebbles and Stones / Roslyn Lund -- Dream-Vision / Tillie Olsen -- In the Rearview Mirror / Linda Pastan -- No Answer / Judith Steinbergh.
ISBN:
0807036145
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SSHC SOCIAL SCI Gender Women Her | Main (Downtown) | Selden K. Smith Holocaust Collection | In |