Thursday, November 29, 2001 at 7:30 pm
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
Brookdale Center
One West 4th Street (between Broadway and Mercer Street)
free and open to the public

Family relationships, feminism, and contemporary Jewish experience construct complex and diverse identities for Jewish women today. Readings by celebrated women writers from their fiction, poetry, and autobiographical writings illuminate their personal search for identity and meaning.

Featured authors:

Helen Epstein, Where She Came From: A Daughters Search for Her Mother's History, and Children of the Holocaust

Myla Goldberg, Bee Season

Kathryn Grody, A Mom's Life

Irena Klepfisz, Keeper of Accounts, Different Enclosures, and A Few Words in the Mother Tongue

Jane Lazarre, Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: A Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons

Nessa Rapoport, Preparing for the Sabbath, The Perfection of the World, and A Woman's Book of Grieving

This program is co-sponsored by the Hadassah International Research Institute on Jewish Women at Brandeis University.

For more information, please call 212.824.2933.