Beyond the PaleRaincoast Books, 2003 - 406 pages Beyond the Pale — winner of the Lambda Literary Award — tells the stories of two Jewish women living through times of darkness and inhumanity in the early 20th century, capturing their undaunted love and courage in luminous and moving prose. The richly textured novel details Gutke Gurvich’s odyssey from her apprenticeship as a midwife in a Russian shtetl to her work in the suffrage movement in New York. Interwoven with her tale is that Chava Meyer, who was attended by Gurvich at her birth and grew up to survive the pogrom that took the lives of her parents. Throughout the book, historical background plays a large part: Jewish faith and traditions, the practice of midwifery, the horrific conditions in prerevolutionary Russia and New York sweatshops, and the determined work of labor unionists and suffragists. |
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Contents
Section 1 | 3 |
Section 2 | 10 |
Section 3 | 21 |
Section 4 | 38 |
Section 5 | 75 |
Section 6 | 83 |
Section 7 | 92 |
Section 8 | 112 |
Section 15 | 240 |
Section 16 | 254 |
Section 17 | 274 |
Section 18 | 283 |
Section 19 | 291 |
Section 20 | 321 |
Section 21 | 337 |
Section 22 | 363 |
Section 9 | 120 |
Section 10 | 134 |
Section 11 | 181 |
Section 12 | 206 |
Section 13 | 210 |
Section 14 | 232 |
Section 23 | 393 |
Section 24 | 397 |
Section 25 | 406 |
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