Category: Jewish Interests

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Unspeakable Love by Brian Whitaker

Brian Whitaker | Unspeakable Love | Homosexuality is a taboo subject in Arab countries. Clerics denounce it as a heinous sin, while newspapers write cryptically of ‘shameful acts.’ Altho

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Jewish Interests

Cookie by Barbara Quinn

Barbara Quinn | Cookie | The story, of a young, troubled Jewish woman in the 1950’s who gets caught up in drugs, prostitution, violent lesbian relationships was pretty heady s

Posted in Jewish Interests Mystery

The Sophie Horowitz Story by Sarah Schulman

Sarah Schulman | The Sophie Horowitz Story | Radical feminist leaders Germaine Covington and Laura Wolfe have surfaced after years in hiding to rob a bank, and Germaine has been captured – but wh

Posted in Jewish Interests Short Story Collection (Single Author)

Lucy On The West Coast by Mary Beth Caschetta

Mary Beth Caschetta | Lucy On The West Coast | Enter a world of distinctly individual women facing the vagaries of contemporary life in stories written with breathtaking clarity and wrenching insig

Posted in Jewish Interests Religion & Spirituality

Twice Blessed by Christie Balka; Andy Rose

Christie Balka; Andy Rose | Twice Blessed | Contributors include Rebecca T. Alpert, Martha A. Ackelsberg, Linda J. Holtzman, Judith Plaskow, and Evelyn Torton Beck.

Posted in Award Winner Fiction Jewish Interests

Wasteland by Jo Sinclair; Vivian Gornick

Jo Sinclair; Vivian Gornick | Wasteland | Wasteland is a story of Jacob Braunowitz, a young Jewish man who, tortured by self-doubts and nightmare fears, turns his back on his heritage, his hom

Posted in Fiction Grier Rated Jewish Interests

The Tree and The Vine by Dola de Jong

Dola de Jong | The Tree and The Vine | This courageous early work of lesbian fiction (1951) tells the gripping story of two women torn between desires and taboos in the years leading up to

Posted in Jewish Interests Reference

Gay & Lesbian Literature by Sharon Malinowski

Sharon Malinowski | Gay & Lesbian Literature | From Library Journal

The writers featured here came to prominence during this century-about the only restriction apparent when surveying the 200 e

Posted in Autobiographical Fiction Award Winner Jewish Interests Pulp

Wasteland by Jo Sinclair

Jo Sinclair | Wasteland | Wasteland is the story of Jacob Braunowitz, a young Jewish man who, tortured by self-doubts and nightmare fears, turns his back on his heritage, his h

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Jewish Interests

Nightlight by Janine Avril

Janine Avril | Nightlight | A spare and beautiful memoir of family secrets and its consequences. While in her twenties, Janine Avril learned a shocking family secret, one that se