Books
The Reuben-Rifkin Jewish Women Writers Series: A Joint Project with the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute
Arguing With the Storm
Stories by Yiddish Women Writers
From the superstitions and conviviality of the shtetl to the mysteries of the New World; from rebellion in Russia to the Holocaust, these stories show what it meant to be a woman, a Jew, and a writer in turbulent times.
Dearest Anne
A Tale of Impossible Love
Best-selling, internationally recognized Israeli novelist Judith Katzir recreates an artist's coming-of-age during the 1970s as she explores the concealed, erotic relationship between a teenager and her married teacher Michaela.
Dream Homes
From Cairo to Katrina, An Exile's Journey
In a memoir of traditions lost and found, a flooded city, and the healing power of food, Joyce Zonana (an Egyptian Jew by birth) finds a sense of self among people and places as far from Cairo as Oklahoma and Katrina-stricken New Orleans.
Hold on to the Sun
If a Tree Falls
A Family's Quest to Hear and Be Heard
A memoir of a woman learning her family's secret history; imagining the lives of her deaf ancestors in the enclaves of Eastern Europe; and, with her husband, making hard decisions for her deaf children.
Shalom India Housing Society
A Novel
In this novel set inside a fictional housing complex, a true-to-life story unfolds of a steadily disappearing sect of Indian Jews who live out their mixed identity with longing, joy, and humor.
Whatever is Contained Must Be Released
My Jewish Orthodox Girlhood, My Life as a Feminist Artist
From orthodoxy to chaos, a major artist wrestles with her influences.
The memoir is a charming dash through the years of a structured orthodox life and the artistic life that feed her to question the misogyny of her beloved religion. It is also a tell-all about the art world, with fascinating details about luminaries such as Ana Mendieta, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, and Betty Parsons.
NEA Grant will help fund the digitization of 15 Feminist Press classics, and the publication of three extraordinary literary works: Savage Coast by Muriel Rukeyser, Kissing the Sword: A Prison Memoir by Shahrnush Parsipur, and The Silent Woman by Monika Zgustova.
