Lilith (magazine)
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| description | Independent, Jewish & frankly feminist |
| language | English |
| First edition | 1976 |
| founder | Susan Weidman Tailor |
| Frequency of publication | quarterly |
| Editor-in-chief | Susan Weidman Tailor |
| Editor | Susan Weidman Tailor |
| Web link | lilith.org |
Lilith is a not-for-profit and independent Jewish feminist magazine in the US that has been published quarterly since 1976. The magazine publishes investigative reports, reports on contemporary and historical topics, entertainment industry criticism and reviews, literary prose and poetry, art and photography. Some contributions have been awarded prizes.
history
The magazine was founded in 1976 by Susan Weidman Schneider. The aim was to promote the discussion of topics among Jewish women and to put them on the agenda of the Jewish community, whereby the aim was to give the Jewish women more freedom of choice in everyday Jewish life. The magazine is called Lilith after the supposedly first wife of Adam . Though not mentioned in the Bible, Talmudic scholars later wrote that Lilith was banished from the Garden of Eden for refusing to submit to Adam. Lilith is seen as an important factor in the spread and acceptance of women's rights in Judaism.
content
The wide range of topics includes sexual misconduct by rabbis, new rituals and celebrations up to the deconstruction of the JAP cliché (“ Jewish American Princess ”) and the representation of the Jewish point of view on the right to abortion .
Editors and authors
Susan Weidman Schneider has been editor-in-chief since 1976. She is also the author of Jewish and Female and Intermarriage: The Challenge of Living with Differences between Christians and Jews , and co-author of Head and Heart on the role of money in the life of women. The magazine's authors include Cynthia Ozick , Grace Paley , Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Nessa Rapoport, Blu Greenberg, Allegra Goodman, Myla Goldberg , Rabbi Susan Schnur (Lilith's chief editor), Naomi Danis ( Lilith's chief editor), Dara Horn , Jennifer Baumgartner , Marge Piercy ( Lilith's poetry editor), Sarah Blustain, Leela Corman, Liana Finck, Danya Ruttenberg, Shira Spector, Rachel Kadish, Anat Litwin, Ilana Stanger-Ross, Lesléa Newman , Yona Zeldis McDonough ( Lilith's literary editor), Alice Sparberg Alexiou , Amy Stone and others. Lilith also publishes the works of art by Judy Chicago , Miriam Schapiro , Joan Roth ( Lilith's photographer), Maira Kalman, Roz Chast and Eva Hesse .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ lilith.org ( Memento from June 9, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ ajpa.org ( Memento from August 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Susan Weidman Schneider | Jewish Women's Archive. In: jwa.org. Retrieved January 17, 2017 .
- ^ Anne Lapidus Lerner: Lilith Magazine | Jewish Women's Archive. Lilith Magazine. In: jwa.org. Retrieved January 17, 2017 : “The topics discussed in Lilith have stimulated a great deal of thinking and, indeed, fostered change within the Jewish community. For example, Cynthia Ozick's article “Notes toward Finding the Right Question: A Vindication of the Rights of Jewish Women” moved the question of women's rights in Judaism from the sacred to the social domain. In so doing, she opened the issue for many who had considered the question in exclusively theological terms. "
- ↑ See "Stereotypes of Jews" in the English Wiki
- ↑ Sarah Blustain: Susan Weidman Schneider b. 1944 on jwa.org.