Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz

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My Jewish Face and Other Stories (Aunt Lute Books, 1990)

Titles include "Jewish Food, Jewish Children," "Inviolable Space, "The Day We Didn't Declare War," "The Day We Did," Some Pieces of Jewish Left: 1987," "All Weekend No One Mentions Israel," and "In the Middle of the Barbecue She Brings Up Israel."

"I like this book a lot. It's full of history, herstories and plain stories-- and in beautiful combination and variety-- all bringing the truth, the angry adversarial truth, the happy love-finding truth of our women's movement years."
-- Grace Paley

"Her fictions, most of them about being lesbian and/or Jewish, have the ring of truth in their deeply felt emotions and intriguing characters."
-- Publishers Weekly

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Books

The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism (Indiana University Press)
"Every once in awhile a book comes along and smacks you in the face with its wisdom, intelligence, and compassionate politics. The Colors of Jews is such a book." ––Chandra Talpade Mohanty

"In her calm, reasonable, assured voice, with formidable intellectual clarity, a wealth of reading, a fine ear for balancing argument, statistic and anecdote, Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz throws open to questioning every assumption about the meaning of race, identity, justice and history. . . ." ––Tony Kushner



Essays
The Issue Is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence, and Resistance (Aunt Lute, 1992)
"You are in for a challenge--an intellectual feast and a strategic call to action"--Response
Fiction
My Jewish Face& Other Stories (Aunt Lute, 1990)
"Her writing sacrifices neither clarity nor depth."-- Judith McDaniel
Multi-genre Collection
The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish Women's Anthology (Beacon Press, 1989)
"A vigorous, stimulating celebration of a multifaceted Jewish womanhood." -- Publishers Weekly
Poems
We Speak in Code (Motheroot Publications, 1980)
"These poems fix impermeably those crucial moments when change happens. . . a way-making book." -- Tillie Olsen



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