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The Invisible Thread: A Portrait of Jewish American Women
by
Diana Bletter (Goodreads Author),
Lori Grinker
What does it mean to be a Jewish woman in America? And what does it mean to be an American women within Judaism?
For five years Diana Bletter and Lori Grinker criss-crossed America to find fresh answers to these questions. From Louisiana to Montana, from Texas to Vermont, they investigated how Jewish women view themselves in relations to their heritage, to other Jews, and t...more
For five years Diana Bletter and Lori Grinker criss-crossed America to find fresh answers to these questions. From Louisiana to Montana, from Texas to Vermont, they investigated how Jewish women view themselves in relations to their heritage, to other Jews, and t...more
Paperback, 224 pages
Published
December 18th 1989
by Jewish Publication Society of America
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"Author and photographer have collaborated to bring an extraordinarily diverse group of voices into print, evoking images that lift away traditional stereotypes of Jewish-American women." -- Judy Chicurel, The New York Times
"It's an exhilarating read on several levels. The book is also just plain fun. Reading it is something like going to a reunion with all your best friends, and having an intimate conversation with each of them about what they've done with their lives and why. It's personal, no...more
"It's an exhilarating read on several levels. The book is also just plain fun. Reading it is something like going to a reunion with all your best friends, and having an intimate conversation with each of them about what they've done with their lives and why. It's personal, no...more
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Diana Bletter is the First Prize winner of Family Circle Magazine’s 2011 Fiction Contest, and her novel, The Witches’ Secret, was a semi-finalist in Amazon’s 2009 Breakout Novel Award. Her first book, The Invisible Thread: A Portrait of Jewish American Women, (written in collaboration with prize-winning photographer Lori Grinker) was nominated for a National Jewish Book Award.
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