For Generations: Jewish Motherhood - Softcover

Ronne Randall; Mandy Ross

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0907123643 ISBN 13: 9780907123644

Publisher: Five Leaves Publications, 2005

Synopsis

Chicken soup goddess? Kvetch-monster? Or just a Jewish mother raising children in the real world? For Generations's writers explore the experience of Jewish motherhood, across the spectrum, from the religious to the secular Jewish communities. Subjects include mothers in the Hebrew Bible, Jewish mothers in film, mixed faith families, motherhood among the strictly Orthodox, and Jewish women who don't have children... The editors do not take sides, allowing individual writers their own voice. Whether in the Diaspora or in Israel, maintaining tradition or creating new ritual, here is Judaism in all its diversity being handed on from one generation to the next. For Generations will be of interest people of Jewish or other faiths and those interested in parenting. The contributors include: Lucy Abrahams, Julia Bard, Rebecca Bender, Sally Berkovic, Isobel Braidman, Sarah Ebner, Angela English, Shirly Eran, Berta Freistadt, Masha Gessen, Sara Goodman, Michele Hanson, Anne Harris, Kitty Hart, Brenda Heller, Rabbi Margaret Jacobi, Batya Jacobs, Ann Joseph, Susie Kaufman, Sidura Ludwig, Shana Mauer, Rachel Montagu, Grace Paley, Rabbi Marcia Plumb, Rosalind Preston, Sibyl Ruth, Lisa Saffron, Ayala Samuels, Beatrice Sayers, Marlena Schmool, Anne Sebba, Ruth Shire, Elly Stanton, Anna Sullivan, Elana Maryles Sztokman, Nadia Valman, Michelene Wandor, Karen Worth, Rafeket Zohar, Sheva Zucker.

About this title

About the Author:

Ronne Randall was born to Yiddish-speaking immigrant parents in Brooklyn, New York. She lives in Nottingham where she works as a freelance editor and Americanizer for British publishers. Mandy Ross grew up in Manchester but now lives in Birmingham where she writes and edits children's and educational publications.

About this edition

• Publisher: Five Leaves Publications
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0907123643
• ISBN 13: 9780907123644
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 332
• Editor: Ronne Randall, Mandy Ross