Like many of us, longtime lesbian writer Donna Minkowitz grew up feeling like she wasn't real. In her "magical realist" memoir, she writes as though she were actually a golem invented by her mother - a clay creature from Jewish legend, created to serve. Help celebrate Halloween with the SFPL by watching Minkowitz break her chains!
Cosponsored by Keshet, an organization for LGBT Jews, Congregation Sha'ar Zahav, the historically LGBTQ synagogue, the Yale Gay and Lesbian Alumni Association and the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association/Northern California chapter.
Donna Minkowitz is the author of the memoir Growing Up Golem: How I Survived My Mother, Brooklyn and Some Really Bad Dates, which was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and shortlisted for the Publishing Triangle’s Judy Grahn Nonfiction Award. Earlier, she won a Lambda Literary Award for her first memoir, Ferocious Romance: What My Encounters with the Right Taught Me about Sex, God and Fury, about her experiences covering the Christian right as a lesbian journalist.
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Cosponsored by Keshet, an organization for LGBT Jews, Congregation Sha'ar Zahav, the historically LGBTQ synagogue, the Yale Gay and Lesbian Alumni Association and the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association/Northern California chapter.
Donna Minkowitz is the author of the memoir Growing Up Golem: How I Survived My Mother, Brooklyn and Some Really Bad Dates, which was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and shortlisted for the Publishing Triangle’s Judy Grahn Nonfiction Award. Earlier, she won a Lambda Literary Award for her first memoir, Ferocious Romance: What My Encounters with the Right Taught Me about Sex, God and Fury, about her experiences covering the Christian right as a lesbian journalist.
Like many of us, longtime lesbian writer Donna Minkowitz grew up feeling like she wasn't real. In her "magical realist" memoir, she writes as though she were actually a golem invented by her mother - a clay creature from Jewish legend, created to serve. Help celebrate Halloween with the SFPL by watching Minkowitz break her chains!
Cosponsored by Keshet, an organization for LGBT Jews, Congregation Sha'ar Zahav, the historically LGBTQ synagogue, the Yale Gay and Lesbian Alumni Association and the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association/Northern California chapter.
Donna Minkowitz is the author of the memoir Growing Up Golem: How I Survived My Mother, Brooklyn and Some Really Bad Dates, which was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and shortlisted for the Publishing Triangle’s Judy Grahn Nonfiction Award. Earlier, she won a Lambda Literary Award for her first memoir, Ferocious Romance: What My Encounters with the Right Taught Me about Sex, God and Fury, about her experiences covering the Christian right as a lesbian journalist.
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Cosponsored by Keshet, an organization for LGBT Jews, Congregation Sha'ar Zahav, the historically LGBTQ synagogue, the Yale Gay and Lesbian Alumni Association and the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association/Northern California chapter.
Donna Minkowitz is the author of the memoir Growing Up Golem: How I Survived My Mother, Brooklyn and Some Really Bad Dates, which was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and shortlisted for the Publishing Triangle’s Judy Grahn Nonfiction Award. Earlier, she won a Lambda Literary Award for her first memoir, Ferocious Romance: What My Encounters with the Right Taught Me about Sex, God and Fury, about her experiences covering the Christian right as a lesbian journalist.
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