Edited by Laura Phillips & Marion Baraitser

New Stories by Jewish Women in Britain
First ever collection of short stories for today by British Jewish Women.
Price: £11.50

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ReviewS:

'This is a very accessible way of telling the Holocaust story to today's teenagers. It focuses on young people doing what they always do whatever the circumstance: flirting, bending the rules, helping each other out, smuggling in illicit objects (in this case a collection of puppets that they can express their underlying anxieties with) though they are experiencing one of the twentieth century's most inhumane events. The black and white pencil drawings are beautifully done and very sensitive, yet with a cool edge deriving from today's best comic book illustration, and there are a number of touches of humour as well.'  Amazon review, 2010

Contemporary British Jewish women writers take an honest and fresh look at their status as integrated outsiders and come up with some witty and profound surprises. ‘ The easiest way to find out who will be the next Amos Oz.’ (Jewish Reniassance)

SUMMARY:

• Everyday concerns of the human heart – single motherhood, intermarriage, eating.
• Outsiders within another culture.
• A Jewish sensibility and wit with awareness and compassion.
• Quiet and intimate, they stay in the mind
• Extraordinary and memorable insights.

DESCRIPTION:

A pregnant Catholic wife sits at her new husband’s Jewish celebration table. A daughter imagines her own birth through her mother’s eyes. An Arab-Israeli taxi driver is misunderstood for saving a Jewish child.

• Supported by the Arts Council of England ‘Save our Short Story’ campaign.
• Multi award-winning press. Funded by the European Jewish Publication Society
• Includes Erica Wagner, Elisabeth Russell Taylor, Shelley Weiner, Rivkie Fried, Rachel Farhi, Anna Sullivan, Elizabeth Stern, Lydia Rivlin, Joanna Pearl, Michelene Wandor, Wendy Brandmark, Lana Citron, Tamar Yellin, Norma Cohen, Ruth Joseph, Joan Michelson, Bobbie Dahdi, Sally Cline, Marion Baraitser.
• New material tackling contemporary themes aimed at a wide reading public: schools, college students, libraries, study groups and reading circles.
• Launch at Jewish Book Week, 3rd March, 6.00pm 2004, with performed readings by Judith Paris at the Royal National Hotel, Russell Square, London. (Please do not release before launch date.)
• Extensive press coverage (both Jewish and major papers), radio.