Beyond the Pale
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (547 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 155192613X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 406 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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One of my all-time favorite books! It is an odyssey into another time One of my all-time favorite books! It is an odyssey into another time and place when life was truly difficult. It is a story of history, courage, and standing up for change in a very oppressive world. I love the journey into the Jewish culture of the time and the heroi. Very slow start before you feel like your into the story line but takes you though Florida Jo Very slow start before you feel like your into the story line but takes you though an time when life was not easy with a mix of Love and sorrow.. A Historical Novel about Russian Jewish Lesbian Immigrants A Customer This 404 page book gives an exceptionally good and detailed look at Russian Jewish life in the 1800's.The book begins in the first person, telling the story of Gutke a midwife, and lesbian. We get a flashback of when Gutke was a young girl.As a child, Gutke, and her mo
Interwoven with her tale is that Chava Meyer, who was attended by Gurvich at her birth and grew up to survive the pogrom that took the lives of her parents. Throughout the book, historical background plays a large part: Jewish faith and traditions, the practice of midwifery, the horrific conditions in prerevolutionary Russia and New York sweatshops, and the determined work of labor unionists and suffragists.. The richly textured novel details Gutke Gurvich’s odyssey from her apprenticeship as a midwife in a Russian shtetl to her work in the suffrage movement in New York. Beyond the Pale — winner of the Lambda Literary Award — tells the stories of two J
But, as Dykewomon puts it, "Whenever you tell the story of one woman, inside is another," and this rich, multilayered novel is also the story of Chava Meyer, the baby girl Gutke delivered that day, as well as the story of the important women in both of their lives: mothers, sisters, neighbors, lovers, friends. Beyond the Pale is Gutke's story, detailing her odyssey from a Russian shtetl to a comfortable Manhattan brownstone. After seeing her mother raped and killed during a particularly vicious progrom in her native village of Kishinev, Chava immigrates to America. There, on Manhattan's Lower East Side, bot
Her first novel, Riverfinger Woman, published in 1974, was selected for The Publishing Triangle's list of 100 best lesbian and gay novels. Elana Dykewomon is a Jewish lesbian activist, award- winning author, editor, and professor. Best known for her Lammy winning historical novel, Beyond the Pale, Dykewomon was also awarded the 2009 James Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist's Prize. He