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Frankly Feminist

Short Stories by Jewish Women from Lilith Magazine

Edited by Susan Weidman Schneider and Yona Zeldis McDonough

Short story collections focusing on Jewish writers have—no surprise—typically given women authors short shrift. This new volume represents the best Jewish feminist fiction published in Lilith magazine, and does what no other collection has done before in its geographic scope, its inclusion of 21st-century stories, and its Jewish feminist focus.

This collection showcases a wide range of stories offering variegated cultures and contexts and points of view: Persian Jews; a Biblical matriarch; an Ethiopian mother in modern Israel; suburban American teens; Eastern European academics; a sexual questioner; a Jew by choice; a new immigrant escaping her Lower East Side sweatshop; a Black Jewish marcher for justice; in Vichy France, a toddler’s mother hiding out; and more.

Organized by theme, the stories in this book emphasize a breadth of content, and our hope is that in reading you’ll appreciate the liveliness of the burgeoning self-awareness brought to life in each tale, and the occasional funny, call-your-friend-and-tell-her-about-it moment. Skip around, encounter an author whose other work you may know, be enticed by a title, or an opening line. We hope you’ll find both pleasure and enlightenment—and sometimes revelation—within these pages.

Paper: $29.95 | E-book: $28.95
ISBN-13: 9781684581269
Pages: 344 | Size: 6 in. x 9 in.
Date Published: October 6, 2022
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Original, entertaining, thought-provoking.

Midwest Book Review

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  • Original, entertaining, thought-provoking, "Frankly Feminist: Short Stories by Jewish Women from Lilith Magazine" will prove to be of special appeal to readers with an interest in Jewish themed literature and short story fiction. While especially and unreservedly recommended for personal, community, and academic library Jewish literature fiction and short story collections, it should be noted that "Frankly Feminist: Short Stories by Jewish Women from Lilith Magazine" is also available in a digital book format.

    Midwest Book Review

About the Author

Susan Weidman Schneider

Susan Weidman Schneider is Lilith‘s Editor-in-Chief, and was one of the magazine’s founding mothers. She is the author of three acclaimed books, among them the groundbreaking Jewish and Female: Choices and Changes in Our Lives Today. She was born in Winnipeg, Canada, and lives in New York City.

Anita Diamant

Anita Diamant is a writer whose work includes fiction, journalism, essays, and guidebooks to contemporary Jewish life.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, she grew up in Newark, New Jersey, and Denver, Colorado. She graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a degree in comparative literature and earned a Master’s in American literature from Binghamton University in upstate New York.

In 1975, Anita moved to Boston and contributed to local magazines and newspapers (Boston

Yona Mcdonough

Yona Zeldis McDonough has been Lilith’s Fiction Editor for over twenty years. She is also an award-winning author of eight novels, most recently Not Our Kind, published under the pen name Kitty Zeldis, and over thirty-five books for children. She was born in Chadera, Israel, holds degrees from Vassar College and Columbia University, and lives in Brooklyn.

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