The author talks about the significant people of her Jewish childhood during the Depression and her experiences as a teacher, activist, parent, and writer

And the Bridge Is Love: Life Stories

Biographies & Memoirs

Moskowitz, Faye

Community & Culture

Beacon Pr

The author of A Leak in the Heart: Personal Essays presents a collection of wise, wisecracking, occasionally heartbreaking stories of a Jewish childhood in Depression-era Michigan. "A book that will make you stand up and cheer".--Detroit News.

And the Bridge Is Love

Beacon Press (MA)

These are twenty-four autobiographical story-essays, witty, vulnerable, and wise, about growing up part of a puzzled and unassimilated Orthodox Jewish family in a Michigan small-town in the 1930s and '40s and about the wider world of marriage, children, teaching and writing after that rich beginning.

Leak in the Heart: Tales from a Woman's Life

David R. Godine, Publisher

These are twenty-four autobiographical story-essays, witty, vulnerable, and wise, about growing up part of a puzzled and unassimilated Orthodox Jewish family in a Michigan small-town in the 1930s and ’40s and about the wider world of marriage, children, teaching and writing after that rich beginning.

Whoever Finds This I Love You

Literature & Fiction

United States

Faye Moskowitz's first collection of story-essays, A Leak in the Heart (Godine, 1985), was a marvellous exploration of growing up in a Jewish Orthodox family in small-town Michigan, and clearly established her gift for uncovering - and understanding - the constant pulls and liabilities of family relationships. Now, in this new and fiercely caring volume, she turns to other families, to couples young and old, to the conflicts that loyalty, caring, and loss encounter at every step. These are stories of immense compassion and dazzling perception, for she recognized all, and in the end makes us the gift of our very humanity; the sixteen-year-old whose dreams of romance aren't diminished by the stark actuality of sex; the housewife who turns to shoplifting to perk up her all-too-familiar routine; one woman's heartbreaking response to her mastectomy; or how fantasies of a nose job can be a life raft in an indifferent world. We have to laugh through our tears, so well told are these tales. A magical offering that affirms everyone's need for someone to say, "I love you," this collection is sure to find a permanent place in your heart.

Whoever Finds This: I Love You: Stories

Contemporary

"A book that will make you stand up and cheer."—The Detroit News "Bridges the gap between humor and despair, past and present, Jew and gentile, to reveal its author's simple humanity, deeply rooted in her unwavering love of family. . . . Touching and compelling."—The Washington Post The Feminist Press brings back into print a literary gem. And the Bridge Is Love is a timeless collection of life stories about growing up in a Jewish family in Detroit during the Depression and becoming a writer in Washington, DC. The essays range from one on a friend who is dying to a hilarious account of binge eating at a wedding. In between these two poles is a world both modern and old-fashioned, vivid, yet vanishing.

And the Bridge Is Love (Jewish Women Writers)

Arts & Literature

The Feminist Press at CUNY

From her first book, the highly acclaimed A Leak in the Heart, the stories of Faye Moskowitz have observed a particular and mostly forgotten terrain of American life: the world of the second-generation Jew. Displaced and often confused, growing up in families still clinging to the traditions of the old country, these poignant tales feature protagonists still actually speaking Yiddish, mameh loshen, the mother tongue. We listen to them as would a child, sitting there quietly in the kitchen of a small Midwestern town overhearing a room full of women gossiping about their husbands, their work, the uncomfortable space they inhabit between a threatened culture and a modern world; between a generation that came from the old country speaking nothing but Yiddish and a new generation eager to be assimilated, desperate to "fit in," and seeing with brutal clarity the small lies, petty evasions, and daily justifications that make their trapped, often barren lives bearable. 
 Moskowitz weaves her tales of interconnected families into a series of connected stories, of her parents, their extended families, their neighbors and landsleit, and finally of her own coming of age in America. The portraits and the people are not always admirable, certainly not Talmudic, but through the eye and the ears of this master, they all give us lessons in the sweetness and pain of this first generation to assimilate. Like her other books, this is, an achingly painful and funny collection about growing up female, Jewish, and smart.

Peace in the House: Tales from a Yiddish Kitchen

Literary

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And the Bridge Is Love: Life Stories

And the Bridge Is Love: Life Stories

And the Bridge Is Love

Leak in the Heart: Tales from a Woman's Life

Leak in the Heart: Tales from a Woman's Life

Whoever Finds This I Love You

Whoever Finds This: I Love You: Stories

And the Bridge Is Love (Jewish Women Writers)

Peace in the House: Tales from a Yiddish Kitchen