Beyond the Pale
Russian Jews
Jewish girls
Fiction, lgbtq+, lesbian
Stonewall Book Awards
New york (state), fiction
Lambda Literary Award Winner
Lambda Literary Awards
Jews, fiction
Lesbians
Immigrants
Girls
Emigration and immigration
Jews
Fiction, general
Fiction
Born 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. 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 19…
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