Beyond the Pale by Elana Dykewomon

Beyond the Pale

Elana Dykewomon

Beyond the Pale follows the lives of two women: Gutke Gurvich, who apprentices as a midwife in a Russian Jewish settlement before immigrating to New York and joining the suffrage and labor movements; and Chava Meyer, a Russian Jew whose birth is attended by Gutke. A tour de force sequence involving the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire is typical of this book’s power. Both epic and intimate, the book takes readers deep inside diverse worlds, with harrowing and heroic stories of midwifery, the Russian pogroms, and early lesbian life.

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Details

ISBN 9781551928784
Genre Fiction; Jewish Interest
Publication Date 28-Feb-08
Publisher Raincoast Books
Format Trade Paperback
No. of Pages 424
Language English
Rating Good
Subject Girls – Fiction; Immigrants – Fiction; Jews – Fiction; Jews, Russian – Fiction; Lesbians – Fiction
BookID 1143

Author: LFWBooks