Download or read book Jewish Mothers Tell Their Stories written by Rachel Josefowitz Siegel and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Women in Psychology Jewish Caucus Award for 2000! Jewish Mothers Tell Their Stories: Acts of Love and Courage contains touching and personal essays written by contemporary Jewish mothers from different parts of the globe. Their stories reveal the choices that Jewish mothers make in our post-Holocaust, non-Jewish worldthe many ways of being Jewish, the acts of loving, of preserving and celebrating Jewish traditions and spirituality, and of transmitting them to their children and families. The reader, Jewish or not, mother or not, will be drawn into an appreciation of the cultural, ethnic, and spiritual aspects of mothering. Jewish mothers will find a loving celebration of the many ways of being who they are. Rabbis and educators will also gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a Jewish mother today.