Which Lilith?
Feminist Writers Re-Create the World's First Woman
1st Edition
Published on 1. September 1998
440 pages
978-1-4616-3253-5 (ISBN)
Description
Eve was not Adam's first wife. That honor belongs to Lilith, who was created as Adam's equal. When he tried to dominate her, she uttered God's secret name and flew away. Lilith is mentioned in the Talmud, elaborated on in the midrash and in the kabbalah, whispered about in stories, and passed down from mother to daughter. In this anthology, a vivid, provocative, and enlightening sampling of Jewish women's written responses to the Lilith myth are offered. The editors have provided the space for contemporary women to link themselves to a tradition and participate in a sacred activity, thereby infusing energy into Lilith and creating a new tradition.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13
978-1-4616-3253-5 (9781461632535)
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Enid Dame | Lilly Rivlin | Henny Wenkart
Which Lilith?
Feminist Writers Re-Create the World's First Woman
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09/1998
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Persons
Enid Dame is a poet, writer, and lecturer at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Lilly Rivlin, a seventh-generation Jerusalemite, is a writer and film-maker specializing in Jewish and international subjects.
Henny Wenkart is the editor of the Jewish Women's Literary Annual.
Lilly Rivlin, a seventh-generation Jerusalemite, is a writer and film-maker specializing in Jewish and international subjects.
Henny Wenkart is the editor of the Jewish Women's Literary Annual.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Editors' Introduction
- I: Overview: Who is Lilith?
- 1. Lilith
- 2. Lilith, the Woman Who would be a Jew
- 3. Lilith at the Red Sea
- 4. A Midrash on the Creation of Woman
- 5. The Lilith Poems
- 6. Lilith's Version
- 7. Strange Bedfellows: Holy Words and Demonic Images
- II: Lilith and Men
- 8. Adam
- 9. Drifting Like Smoke
- 10. Lilith
- 11. Lilith's Version
- 12. Male and Female Created he Them
- 13. Adam and Lilith, Adam's Eve
- 14. The First Divorce
- 15. Lilith's Divorce
- 16. Feminist Revaluation of the Mythical Triad of Two Women and One Man: Lilith, Adam, Eve
- 17. The Real First Woman
- 18. Riding the Wind's Wing
- 19. Lilith's Daughters
- 20. Divine Mornings
- 21. Surrounded by Satyrs, Lilith Takes a Stand
- 22. Lilith Returns
- 23. Lilith Healing and Aging
- III: Lilith as Transgressive Woman
- 24. The First Woman
- 25. For the Lilith Archives
- 26. Chameleon
- 27. Lilith and the Gang
- IV: Lilith and Other Women
- 28. The Coming of Lilith (excerpt)
- 29. Eden
- 30. Lilith and Eve: Secret Sisters and Successive Wives
- 31. In the Garden
- 32. Guilt and Knitting
- 33. The World of Our Mothers: The Lilith Question
- 34. Dancing-Woman
- 35. Sisters
- 36. Sonnet for a Jewish Woman
- 37. If there were Angels
- 38. Still Life with Woman and Apple
- 39. Lilith
- 40. A Note about Lilith as Role Model
- V: Lilith and the Family
- 41. Cain and Abel: A Case for Family Therapy? (Excerpt)
- 42. Inside Lilith
- 43. The Wellhouse
- 44. Kreis
- 45. Lilith's Loophole
- 46. Postpartum
- 47. Lilith Grows a Garden
- 48. Ghazals from a Demon Daughter
- 49. For Lilith: Considerations on Women, Men, Children, and Thinking for Yourself
- 50. Cooking a Kid in Its Mother's Milk
- 51. Lilith and Miriam
- 52. Sister in the Shadows: Lilith's Role in the Jewish Family Myth
- VI: Lilith as Archetype, Female Principle
- 53. The Book of Lilith: A Summary
- 54. Woman before the Idea of Woman
- 55. The Story of Lilith and Hawwah
- 56. Talking about Lilith
- 57. Koan: What is Your Relation to a Flower?
- 58. Lilith Sighted Starboard
- 59. Lilith of the Wildwood, of the Fair Places
- 60. Lilith's Sabbath Prayer
- 61. Achsah at the Spring
- VII: Lilith in Exile
- 62. Lilith, in this Dream
- 63. Drawn to the Flames
- 64. Lilith, I Don't Cut My Grass
- 65. Lilith, Wounded
- 66. The Last Lilith Poem
- Afterword: Lilith Lives
- Contributors
- Credits
- Index
- About the Author
