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A Cross and a StarA Cross and a Star: Memoirs of a Jewish Girl in Chile
Marjorie Agosin, Laura Riesco (Introduction) / Paperback / Published 1997

The Sun at Midday: Tales of a Mediterranean Family
Gini Alhadeff, Gina Alhadeff / Hardcover / Published 1997 / Paperback edition 
A family memoir of a Sephardic Jewish family whose Arab name, Italian nationality and conversion to Catholicism make them feel slightly foreign in every country.

Conversations With Dvora: An Experimental Biography of the First Modern Hebrew Woman Writer
Amia Lieblich, et al / Paperback / 1997

Rachel Calof's StoryRachel Calof's Story: Jewish Homesteader on the Northern Plains
Rachel Calof, et al / Paperback / Published 1996

Burning Lights
Bella Chagall, Marc Chagall / Paperback / Published 1998
First published by Schocken Books in 1946, this memoir of the Chagall family is a crucial document for Jewish women's history. This edition introduced by Judith Baskin, Department Chair and Professor of Judaic Studied at SUNY Albany.

White Fire: A Portrait of Women Spiritual Leaders in America
by Malka Drucker, Gay Block

Stranger in the Midst: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery
Nan Fink / Hardcover / Published 1997

With Roots in HeavenWith Roots in Heaven: The Journey of a Renegade Rabbi
Tirzah Firestone / Hardcover / Published 1998

Memories of Migration: Gender, Ethnicity, and Work in the Lives of Jewish and Italian Women in New York, 1870-1924
Kathie Friedman-Kasaba / Paperback / Published 1996
History, theory, and immigrant women's own words reveal women's participation in the mass migrations from eastern and southern Europe to the U.S. at the turn of the century.

The Year Mom Got Religion: One Woman's Midlife Journey into Judaism
by Lee Meyerhoff Hendler
"Light-hearted, humorous, and poignant, this spiritual autobiography tells the tale of one woman's awakening to religious understanding during middle age, and how her wish to make her faith an essential part of her life affected her, her family, and her lifestyle."

I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust
Livia Bitton Jackson / School and Library Binding / 1997

Women in the Resistance and in the Holocaust: The Voices of Eyewitnesses
Vera Laska (Editor) / Hardcover / 1983

Getting Home Alive
Aurora Levins Morales / Paperback / 1986

Worry Girl: Stories from a Childhood
Andrea Freud Loewenstein / Paperback / 1992

Life on the Fringes: A Feminist Journey Towards Traditional Rabbinic Ordination
Haviva Ner-David

A Restricted Country
Joan Nestle / Paperback / Published 1987

Return from Exile: One Woman's Journey Back to Judaism
Carol Orsborn / Hardcover / Published 1998

To Tell at Last: Survival Under False Identity, 1941-45
Blanca Rosenberg / Paperback / 1995

Ruby of Cochin: An Indian Jewish Woman Remembers
Ruby Daniel, et al / Hardcover / Published 1995

To Paint Her LifeTo Paint Her Life: Charlotte Salomon in the Nazi Era
Mary Lowenthal Felstiner / Paperback / 1997

Marguerite: Journey of a Sephardic Woman
Gloria Sananes Stein / Paperback / 1997
A memoir of Gloria Sananes Stein's mother Marguerite Saltiel, a jounalist who came of age in Salonika Greece during WWI.

Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America
Letty Cottin Pogrebin / Paperback / Published 1992

Getting over Getting OlderGetting over Getting Older: An Intimate Memoir
Letty Cottin Pogrebin / Hardcover / Published 1996 -- paperback edition
Has a strong feminist tone and a subordinate though explicit Jewish theme regarding time consciousness.

Before Golda: Manya Shochat: A Biography
Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi, Sandra Shurin / Paperback / Published 1989

Streets: A Memoir of the Lower East Side
Bella Spewack, Ruth Limmer (Introduction) / Paperback / Published 1996
A memoir of a young Jewish girl's coming of age in the tenement slums of New York's Lower East Side at the turn of the century. The perspective is from the daughter of a single parent who lives on the streets as much as in her overcrowded home.

From Memory to Transformation: Jewish Women's Voices
Sarah Siberstein Swartz and Margie Wolfe (Editors)

Always a Sister: The Feminism of Lillian D. Wald
Doris Groshen Daniels / Paperback / Published 1995
Lillian D. Wald, founder of the Visiting Nurse Service and the Henry Street Settlement, was a pioneer of the early twentieth-century reform movement. This biography tells the story of her life and career as an activist in the public health movement.

 

 

 

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