Yiddishe Mamas (50 page)

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Authors: Marnie Winston-Macauley

Portnoy’s Complaint,
Philip Roth. Bantam, 1970.

Prairie Dogs Weren’t Kosher,
Linda Mack Seldoff. Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1977.

The Quotable Einstein,
Alice Calaprice. Princeton, 1997.

The Quotable Jewish Woman,
Elaine Bernstein Partnow, ed. Jewish Lights, 2004.

Rachel Calof’s Story: Jewish Homesteader on the Northern Plains,
Rachel Calof. Indiana Univerity Press, 1995.

The Red Tent,
Anita Diamant. Picador USA, 1998.

Roseanne, My Life as a Woman,
Roseanne Barr. Harper&Row, 1989.

The Second Jewish Book of Why,
Alfred J. Kolatch. Jonathan David, 1995.

The Seinfeld Scripts,
Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David/Castle Rock Entertainment. HarperPerennial, 1998.

Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York,
Gail Parent. Bantam, 1973.

Schindler’s List,
Thomas Keneally. Touchstone, 1982.

Shabbat Shalom,
Susan R. Friedland. Little, Brown and Company, 1999.

The Spirit of the Ghetto,
Hutchins Hapgood. Funk and Wagnalls, 1965.

Stars of David,
Abigail Pogrebin. Broadway Books, 2005.

The Story of Yiddish in America,
Sol Steinmetz. University Alabama Press; 2nd edition, 2001.

Talking Back: Images of Jewish Women in American Popular Culture,
Joyce Antler, ed. Hanover and London: Brandeis University Press.

The Tapestry of Jewish Time: A Spiritual Guide to Holidays and Life-Cycle Events,
Nina Beth Cardin, Ilene Winn-Lederer (Illustrator). Behrman House, 2000.

A Treasury of Jewish Folklore,
Nathan Ausubel. Crown, 1975.

A Treasury of Jewish Humor,
Nathan Ausubel, ed. Galahad, 1993.

Treasury of Jewish Quotations,
Leo Rosten. Bantam, 1978.

Treblinka,
Jean-Francois Steiner. Simon and Schuster, 1967.

The 2,000 Year Old Man in the Year 2,000,
Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner. Cliff Street, 1997.

Vagabond Stars,
Nahma Sandrow. Seth Press, 1986.

Véra: Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov,
Stacy Schiff. Modern Library, 2000.

We’ll Always Have Paris,
Robert A. Nowland and Gwendolyn W. Nolan. HarperCollins, 1995.

Without Feathers,
Woody Allen. Random House, 1975.

What Jews Say About God,
Alfred J. Kolatch, ed. Jonathan David, 1999.

Why Didn’t I Learn That in Hebrew School,
Eliezar Segal. Rowen and Littlefield, 1999.

Women Who Would Be Rabbis: A History of Women’s Ordination 1889-1985,
Pamela Nadell. Beacon, 1998.

Woody Allen: A Biography,
John Baxter. Carroll and Graf Publishers, 1999.

Woody Allen: A Biography
(2nd edition, revised), Eric Lax. Da Capo Press, 2000.

Words that Hurt, Words that Heal,
Rabbi Joseph Telushkin. William Morrow, 1996.

World of Our Fathers,
Irving Howe. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976.

Yentl the Yeshiva Boy,
Isaac Bashevis Singer. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983.

Yiddish, A Nation of Words,
Miriam Weinstein. Steerforth, 2001.
Yiddish Slang and Idioms,
Fred Kogos. Citadel, 1998.

PAPERS/ARTICLES/SERMONS/POEMS

Leo M. Abrami: “Laughing Through the Tears Jewish”

Joyce Antler: “The Gift of Jewish Women’s Comedy”

Isaac Asimov related this story about his Jewish mother in “It’s Been a Good Life.”

Marianna Belenkaya: “Russia’s Jewish Warriors”

Rabbi Barry H. Block: “Whose Body Is It Anyway?”

Bruce Bower: “Trauma syndrome transverses generations”

Tim Boxer: “Life in Jerusalem Normal: Joy Mingled with Tears”

Gabriella Burman: “Savoring Yiddish”

Jules Chametzky: “Jewish Humor”

Rodger Kamenetz: “A Buccaneer’s Secret”

Susan J. Landau-Chark: “Whither the Rebbetzin in the Twenty-first Century?”

Judy Cohen: “Lessons Learned from Gentle Heroism: Women’s Holocaust Narratives”

Rabbi Dovid Dubov: “What Is the Role of the Woman in Judaism?”

L. Ehrlich, S. Bolozky, R. Rothstein, M. Schwartz, J. Berkowitz, and J. Young: “Textures and Meaning: Thirty Years of Judaic Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst”

Michael Feldberg: “Mordecai Sheftall and the Wages of War”

Joan Fisher: “Resistance and Triumph: an Interview with Gerda Lerner,”
Wisconsin Academy Review

Garance Franke-Ruta: “Liebermama”

Monica Gettleman: “A Mother Shares Her Grief”

D. Giacomo and M. Weissmark: “Toward a Generative Theory of the Therapeutic Field” Family Process

Avivi Gidi, Ben-Nun, Sagui. “Naomi Shemer: First Lady of Israeli Song,” Haaretz (June 27, 2004)

Sheri Goldstein Gleicher: “Flora Spiegelberg: Grand Lady of the Southwest Frontier”

Rabbi Joshua J. Hammerman: “Kosher Today”

Myrna Hant: “TV Jewish Mothers: The Creation of a Multiethnic Antiheroine” and “Creation of the Yiddishe Mammeh Stereotype”

Lee M. Hendler: “Recollections of Lenore Pancoe Meyerhoff”

Steve Hochman: “Who knew Woody Guthrie wrote a trove of Jewish-themed songs? His son Arlo, for one”

Rav B. Horovitz: “A Diet for the Soul?”

Carol K. Howell: “Portraits of Grief: Focus on Survivors”

Ellen Jaffe-Gill: “Bias Hits Rabbis on Mommy Track”

Adam Katz-stone: “Philanthropists offer tips on teaching tzedakah to kids”

Janet Liebman Jacobs: “Women, ritual, and secrecy: the creation of crypto-Jewish culture”

Journal of Mrs. Eugenia Levy Phillips, 1861-1862

Fara Kaplan: “Holocaust Survivors and Their Children: A Search for Positive Effects”

Alexander Kimel: Holocaust stories

B. H. Levy and Rabbi Arnold Mark Belzer: “Jews of Savannah” Charlotte Mayerson: “Layout”

Joan Nathan: “Family Treasures Hold Kosher America’s Roots”

New England Literacy Resource Center: “Light in Montana: How One Town Said No to Hate”

Chaya Ostrower: Doctoral dissertation, “Holocaust Thesis.” Tel-Aviv University

Cynthia Ozick: “The Meaning of Life”

Naomi Pfefferman: “Lainie Kazan”

Dr. Steven Carr Reuben: “Jews, Food, and Holiness”

Alan Riding: “A Mother’s Last Words, an Actress’s Memories”

Michael Rogin: “Blackface, White Noise: The Jewish Jazz Singer Finds His Voice”

Nola Ross: “Jean Lafitte: Louisiana Buccaneer”

Jackie Ruben: “In My Grandmother’s Kitchen”

Vickie R. Rumble: “Notable Women in Alabama History”

Irv Saposnik: “Jolson, the Jazz Singer and the Jewish mother: or how my Yiddishe momme became my mammy”

Monika Scislowska: “Kansas Students Meet Holocaust Hero”

Louise Scodie: “A Forgotten Pioneer of Faith”

Eliezer Segal: “Why Didn’t I Learn This in Hebrew School”

Nicholas Simon: Dr. Bruno Halioua, author of “
Meres Juives des Hommes Celebres”
(“Jewish Mothers of Famous Men”)

Eleanor Cohen Seixas: “Southern Patriot: Diary, February 28, 1865-september 10, 1865”

Jonathan Singer: “Cultural Differences Among Elderly Women in Coping With the Death of an Adult Child”

Karen L. Smith: “Jewish Women and Eating Disorders”

Allison J. Waldman: “Barbra Streisand Scrapbook”

Benjamin Wallace-Wells: “Private Jihad: How Rita Katz got into the Spying Business”

Jack Wertheimer: “The Politics of Women’s Ordination: Jewish Law, Institutional Power and the Debate over Women in the Rabbinate”

Alex Witchel: “Eating Hollywood Style, With Thin Air on the Side” Philip Whitten: SwimmingWorldMagazine.com

Jill Gold Wright: “How Deep Is the Ocean? How High Is the Sky?”

Peter Zheutlin: “Chasing Annie”

PLAYS, FILMS, AND TELEVISION

Biloxi Blues,
Neil Simon. Random House, 1986

Brighton Beach Memoirs,
Neil Simon. Random House, 1984

Broadway Bound,
Neil Simon. Random House, 1987

Enter Laughing,
Joseph Stein, adapted from novel by Carl Reiner. Samuel French, 1964

Fiddler on the Roof;
Joseph Stein. Pocket Books, 1971

Lost in Yonkers,
Neil Simon. Random House, 1991

Annie Hall,
1977

Sunshine,
1999

A Laugh, A Tear, A Mitzvah,
Roy Hammond, executive producer; Roman Brygider, producer/director; Ron Rudaitis, producer; Sam Toperoff, writer. Produced by WLIW21 Productions, Long Island, NY, 1996 Heritage

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