Both find their way to America, Gurvich along with her wife Dovid (always attired in men’s clothing) and Mayer after her mother is raped and killed during a pogrom.
Gutke Gurvich is a midwife in the Pale of Settlement in Russia, delivering one Chava Mayer. How wonderful it is to have this powerful, moving chronicle of Jewish life in imperialist Russia and America once again accessible. Elana Dykewomon’s 1998 Lambda Literary Award winner B eyond the Pale is finally back in print and available for the first time in a number of years. Dykewomon and her partner live in Oakland, California.I didn’t mean for this to be the week for historical fiction, but the coincidence-and the news-is happy indeed. In 2009 she received the Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize, awarded by the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival.
A former editor of the international lesbian feminist journal Sinister Wisdom, she is the recipient of the Lambda Literary Award and the Publishing Triangle's Ferro-Grumley Award. Set in Russia and New York during the early twentieth century and touching on the hallmarks of the Progressive Era-the Women's Trade Union League, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911, anarchist and socialist movements, women's suffrage, anti-Semitism-Elana Dykewomon's Beyond the Pale is a richly detailed and moving story, offering a glimpse into a world that is often overlooked.Įlana Dykewomon has published seven award-winning books foregrounding lesbian heroism, including the classics Riverfinger Women (1974), Beyond the Pale (1997), and Risk (2009). As they live through the oppression and tragedies of their time, Chava and Rose grow to become lovers-and search for a community they can truly call their own. Chava has come to America with the family of her cousin Rose, and the two girls begin working at fourteen.
Their story crosses with that of Chava Meyer, a girl who was attended by Gutke at her birth and was later orphaned during the Kishinev pogrom of 1903. Winner of the Lambda Literary Award and the Ferro-Grumley Award: A beautiful novel about the strength of love and personal perseverance during the political fervor of the Progressive Era.īorn in a Russian-Jewish settlement, Gutke Gurvich is a midwife who immigrates to New York's Lower East Side with her partner, a woman passing as a man.
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