Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz

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Tikkun, Village Voice, fruit, Gay Community News, Utne Reader, IKON, Conditions, Women's Review of Books, NWSA Journal, Jewish Currents, off our backs, Sinister Wisdom, New America, Matrix, Sojourner, Confluence, Heresies, Reconstructing Gender: A Multicultural Anthology, Woman of Power, Margins, Christopher Street, Portland Scribe, Second Wave, Response, Hurricane Alice, Times Argus, New Jewish Agenda Newsletter, Calyx, Transformations, Marsha’s Salon; Jewish Locations: Traversing Racialized Landscapes; Jewish Women's Voices; Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives; Making Worlds; Reconstructing Gender; Women On Women 3: Lesbian Fiction; The Wild Good; Front-Line Feminism; The Arc of Love; Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust; An Intimate Wilderness; Handbook on Anti-Semitism; Speaking for Myself; Out The Other Side: Contemporary Lesbian Writing; Naming The Waves: Contemporary Lesbian Poetry; Jewish Currents Reader; Women Identified Women; Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology; Women’s Studies Service Learning Handbook: From the Classroom to the Community; Fight Back! Feminist Resistance to Male Violence; and elsewhere.

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Some anthologies in which my work appears:

Names We Call Home:
Essays in Racial Autobiography

The Narrow Bridge:
Jewish Views on Multiculturalism


Wrestling With Zion

21st Century Feminist Classrooms


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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