Recommendations

"Yentl's Revenge" is a heart-felt collection of essays filled with 20 womens' experiences, memories and belief-systems that center around their Jewish heritage and upbringing. It is a bitter-sweet homage to their roots, which shows how intertwined and at the same time often seemingly irreconcilable their religion and feminist ideals are. "Yentl's Revenge" makes you laugh out loud and feel respect for these remarkable women, who share their intimate stories in a witty, honest and often raw way, evoking the impression of an earnest talk with one's older sister.

One of the authors discusses the challenges of being a female rabbi, another speaks about empowering her daughter to wear tzizit and yet another author breaks her silence on the sexual abuse and incest she experienced at the hands of her Holocaust-survivor grandfather. From everyday trials readers will relate to, to hardships most of us can (hopefully) only imagine, this book is much more than a “revenge”, it is a call to challenge tradition, identity and religion as we know it.