Julia Stein, poetry, Shulamith, 2002. West End Press. Cover art by Ruth Weisberg is her painting Wrestling with the Messenger.

These poems are in the voices of Jewish women in three eras:  the Bible; 18^th and 19th centuries in Eastern Europe; and  the 20th century.  The Biblical women who speak in their own voices include Eve, Lilith, Sara, Hagar, Leah, Rachel, Shifra, Miriam, Jael, Delilah, Ruth, the Witch of Endor, Bath She-Ba, Tamar, and Vashti. 

The Yiddish women are a forgotten female Hasidic rebbe; a Yiddish woman novelist Esther Singer Kreitman; and the women resistors during the Holocaust.  The link between past and present is Shulamith, "the singer of all the songs" who helps us remember the women in the Bible and who celebrates the women in Europe and the United States.

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