'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title. Beyond the Pale by Elana Nachman/Dykewomon, February 28, 2008, Raincoast Books edition, Paperback in English It looks like you're offline. About the Author:Įlana Dykewomon was an editor of Sinister Wisdom from 1987 to 1995. 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. 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. There, on Manhattan's Lower East Side, both she and Gutke find themselves involved in the nascent labor union and suffrage movements. After seeing her mother raped and killed during a particularly vicious progrom in her native village of Kishinev, Chava immigrates to America.

Reviews for Elana Dykewomons Beyond the Pale. (from the publisher's website) Red Room - Elana Dykewomon's Biography. Her books include Beyond the Pale and They Will Know Me By My Teeth. 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. 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. 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