In this Issue
- Volume 16, Number 1, Spring 2011
- Bridges 21st Anniversary Issue: Conversations on Creativity, Activitism and Jewish Feministidentity
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Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal is a showcase for the creative work of Jewish feminists. It brings together the traditional Jewish values of justice and tikkun olam ("healing the world") with insights honed by the feminist, lesbian, and gay movements. It provides a place in which Jews, feminists, and activists can exchange ideas and deepen the understanding of the relationship between Jewish identities and activism.
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Volume 16, Number 1, Spring 2011Table of Contents
- From the Editor
- pp. 1-3
Articles
- Why Write Poetry?
- pp. 16-21
- Wandering Jews
- pp. 35-43
- Translations Tel Aviv to Toronto
- pp. 51-57
- Thoughts on Yiddish and Bridges
- pp. 64-69
- Lessons in Russian and Yiddish
- pp. 70-76
- Poetry: Music, Patience and Form
- pp. 77-85
- Class Words
- pp. 91-97
- Choosing Life
- pp. 98-103
- Art, Aging and Legacies
- pp. 104-111
- Older and Wiser
- pp. 112-117
- Still Books to Write
- pp. 118-125
- Two Memoirs After Seven Decades
- pp. 126-132
- The Uses of Language
- pp. 133-142
- Legends and Legacies from Denver to Berlin
- pp. 143-150
- Reversing the Gaze
- pp. 151-154
- Talking about Loss after the Holocaust
- pp. 155-161
- Way Beyond the Girl-Nots
- pp. 162-169
- Love, Hate, G-d and Poetry
- pp. 188-193
- How Enid Dame Led Us Beyond Paradigms
- pp. 200-207
- Familiar Strangers
- pp. 221-227
- Forward and Backward: Jewish Lesbian Writers
- pp. 228-233