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Rachel, the Rabbi's Wife, by Silvia Tennenbaum

- Abstract

I BELIEVE it was Gypsy Rose Lee who said, “You gotta get a gimmick if you wanna get ahead.” The story of the frustrated housewife whose personal and professional development is…



About the Author

Ruth R. Wisse is the Martin Peretz professor of Yiddish and professor of comparative literature at Harvard. She is the author most recently of Jews and Power (Nextbook/Schocken).