THE SHOAH AND JEWISH WOMEN'S POETRY

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=110 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="039f0f21egerdp.jpg"> <div> <B>THE SHOAH AND JEWISH WOMEN'S POETRY </B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="038f2f02egerdp.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="lecture_teaching.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lecture/Teaching Topics for Adults"><U><B>Lecture/Teaching Topics for Adults</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id65.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Teenager Education Topics "><U><B>Teenager Education Topics</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id32.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Jewish Womens Poetry"><U><B>Jewish Women</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id59.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="EMMA LAZARUS (18491887) and JewishAmeric"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Emma Lazarus</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id60.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="JEWISH WOMEN POETS: Imagining Israel, 18"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Imagining Israel</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id88.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="IMMIGRATION: Jewish Womens Poetry"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Immigration: Jewish Women Poets</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id62.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="GRACE AGUILAR "><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Grace Aguilar</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id63.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="AMY LEVY"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Amy Levy</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id64.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="EMMA LAZARUS AND ADRIENNE RICH (1929 )"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Emma Lazarus and Adrienne Rich</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id15.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact JEWISH VOICES"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Contact JEWISH VOICES</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Jewish Voices 200 Years of Jewish Poetry"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Home</B></U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=370 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="03bf0f03.jpg"> <div> <I><B> The </B></I><B>Shoah</B><I><B> and Jewish Women's Poetry</B></I></div> <bR> <div>     Current critical debates question the differences between Jewish women's and men's experiences of  the Holocaust, but the evidences given by the women's poetry has been totally disregarded.  We will examine the ways in which women  write about the experiences of women (as both "survivors" and "bystanders"), the kinds of analogies they use, the conceptions of family that emerge in their imagery, the forms of disorientation they render, their representations of  the female body, and the way in which, as poets, they approach psychologically traumatic subject matter. </div> <div>       Texts by <I><B>Sharon Olds, Lisa Ress, Irena Klepfisz, Karen Gershon, Lotte Kramer, Virginia Mishnun, Lyn Lifshin, Rachel Loden, Annette Bialik Harchik, Adrienne Rich</B></I>, and others.</div> </td> </tr></table></body>