(from the publisher's website) Red Room - Elana Dykewomon's Biography.

Through the lens of several lesbians' lives, Dykewomon draws a portrait of an entire Diasporan community living through the terror and uncertainties of both Russian progroms and life in the New World. One of the finest thinkersand writersthe women’s movement has produced, she has worked for the last fifteen years as an editor and teacher of composition and creative writing, both independently and for San Francisco State University. Dykewomon has clearly done her research here, and Beyond the Pale presents a beautifully detailed account of life among turn-of-the-century immigrant Jews, from classes at the Henry Street Settlement House to the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Born in a Russian-Jewish settlement, Gutke Gurvich is a midwife who immigrates to. There, on Manhattan's Lower East Side, both she and Gutke find themselves involved in the nascent labor union and suffrage movements. Beyond the Pale by Elena Dykewomon Dykewomon, Elana 4. Get an email alert when this authors titles go on sale. After seeing her mother raped and killed during a particularly vicious progrom in her native village of Kishinev, Chava immigrates to America. But, as Dykewomon puts it, 'Whenever you tell the story of one woman, inside is another,' and this rich, multilayered novel is also the story of Chava Meyer, the baby girl Gutke delivered that day, as well as the story of the important women in both of their lives: mothers, sisters, neighbors, lovers, friends. : Beyond the Pale by Elena Dykewomon (9780889740747) by Dykewomon, Elana and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books. Beyond the Pale is Gutke's story, detailing her odyssey from a Russian shtetl to a comfortable Manhattan brownstone. Elana Dykewomon's Lambda Award-winning novel Beyond the Pale announces itself to the world with an infant's scream-'a new voice, a tiny shofar announcing its own first year.' The midwife attending this birth is Gutke Gurvich, a half-Jew with different colored eyes and a gift for seeing into the spirit world.

Beyond the pale by elana dykewomon