Nice Jewish Girls: Growing Up in America

Nice Jewish Girls Introduction by Marlene Adler Marks
Part One: "With all your heart..."
Aunt Rose's Child, by Jane Schulzinger Fox
Grinder, by Sharon Pomerantz
In This Country, But in Another Language, My Aunt Refuses to Marry the Men Everyone Wants Her To, by Grace Paley
Comfort, by Jennifer Futernick
Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines, by Amy Bloom
The Secret, by Ilana Girard Singer
Baba, by Susan Terris
Baby-Sitting, by Jane Bernstein
Names, by Jane Yolen
The Get, by Carolyn A. Rogers
Grandma, by Laura Cunningham
Theresa Weisberg's Wedding, As Told to her daughter, Ruth Weisberg
Part Two: "With all your soul..."
Home for Winter, by Marcia Falk
Big White Pushka, by Karen Golden
If Only I'd Been Born a Kosher Chicken, by Jyl Lynn Felman
Kiddush Cup, by L. Schimel
Watchman, What of the Night? by Miriyam Glazer
Shema, the First Prayer You Learn, by S. L. Wisenberg
V'ahavta, by Kaern E. Bender
the mourner, by tova
Inside the Ark, by Karen E. Bender
Prayers, by Judith Ungar
A Jewish Education, by Kathryn Hellerstein

Part Three: "With all your might..."
Schmutz, by Sara Nuss-Galles
My Father's Kichel, by Enid Shomer
Down on the Farm, by Shirley Polinsky Fein
I dream of railway stations, by Carol V. Davis
Sephirot, by Dinah Berland
My Grandma Had a Lover, by Carolyn White
The Discovery, by Belinda Cooper

Part Four: "When you lie down, when you rise up..."
The Nose-Fixer, by Persis Knobbe
That's Ridiculous, by Vivian Gornick
The New Girl, by Shira Dicker
Mutatis Mutandis, by Sheila Schwartz
The Way "We" Were, by Alexandra J. Wall
The Wandering Jewess - 20th-Century Style, by Hindi Brooks
Desert Song, by Jori Ranhand
The One Who Receives, by Dina Elenbogen
Blood in the Sand, by Susan Merson
Onionskin, by Allegra Goodman
Sleepwalking Through Suburbia, by Fern Kupfer
Needlepoint, by Erica Jong
Silent Night, by Joan Lipkin
I Don't Like to Write About My Father, by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
legacy, by cynthia morse
Macaroni and Cheese, by Marlene Adler Marks

Laura Shaine Cunningham is a playwright and journalist whose fiction and nonfiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, Vogue, and Mirabella, among other publications. The recipient of numerous awards and fellowships for her writing and theatrical work, Cunningham divides her time between New York City and her "place in the country."