Aron Rodrigue

Apr 26, 2024 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Julie Sugar |Akiva Schick |Aron Rodrigue |Anita Shapira

Stanford University Press 256 pp., $26 When Zsuzsika Rubin was four years old, her mother, Lilly, took her to a photographer’s portrait studio, where she wore different outfits and hairstyles and struck poses with props: as an all-grown-up lady doing her “daily shopping” with a plush dog and a straw basket, as a housewife in an apron hovering over a little toy stove.

Apr 17, 2023 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Sarah Stein |Kate Elinsky |Aron Rodrigue |Natan Sharansky

Kantika: A Novel Metropolitan Books 304 pp., $27.99 For well over a century, the coming-of-age novel has been central to modern Ashkenazi literature in several languages. Anzia Yezierska’s Bread Givers told the story of the perilous climb of immigrant sisters through poverty and patriarchy on Hester Street.