Description
Fiction. Jewish Studies. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. MY JEWISH FACE & OTHER STORIES chronicles the coming of age and coming out of a daughter of the Jewish left. Wandering from Brooklyn to Harlem and Berkeley in the sixties, from the intense feminist politics of the seventies to the isolation and regathering of activism in the eighties, Kaye/Kantrowitz's women struggle for lesbian community, for proud Jewish identity and always for justice steeped in compassion. As humanly warm and funny as they are serious, these stories will reach with great hope and energy across generations and across cultures.
Author Bio
Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz was born in 1945 in Brooklyn, and worked in social change movements since the sixties. A graduate of CCNY, she went on to earn her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Berkeley. A writer, activist, and teacher, she lived in New York City where she was the director of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice. She is the author of We Speak in Code (Motheroot Press, 1980), My Jewish Face & Other Stories (Aunt Lute Books, 1990), The Issue Is Power (Aunt Lute Books, 1991), and The Color of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism (Indiana UP, 2007); co-editor of The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish Women's Anthology (Beacon Press, 1986); and former editor and publisher of Sinister Wisdom, a lesbian/feminist journal. Her writings about violence and resistance, Jewish identity and anti-Semitism, race, class, and culture have been widely published. Kaye/Kantrowitz passed away in July 2018.
Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA