Preface: In Praise of Judith Merril, Pamela Sargent
Introduction: Joanne Russ and Ursula K. Le Guin Were from Different Planets--and Le Guin Never Wrote 'Yentas', Marleen S. Barr
Chapter 1: Alien Encounters (of the Jewish Kind), Elana Gomel
Chapter 2: Miriam Michelson’s The Superwoman and the Future of Feminist Recovery, Lori Harrison-Kahan
Chapter 3: Seeing Judith Merril’s Personal and Professional Maternal I in “That Only a Mother”: An Intuitive Close Encounter, Leigh Gold
Chapter 4: On (Not) Saving the World: Joanna Russ' Extra (Ordinary) People, Steven Shaviro
Chapter 5: Traumatic Timescapes: Holocaust Memory in Jane Yolen’s The Devil’s Arithmetic and Nava Semel’s And the Rat Laughed, Elyce Rae Helford
Chapter 6: Esther Friesner’s Funny, Serious, and Seriously Funny Speculative Fiction, Jennifer Caplan
Chapter 7: Gendered Memory/Jewish Biography: Reading Elana Gomel’s “Sea of Salt”, Danielle Gurevitch
Chapter 8: Imagining a New Ashkenazi Motherland: Alternate History in Simone Zelitch’s Judenstaat, Lance Strate
Chapter 9: Motherhood, Survival, and Post-Humanism in Keren Landsman’s “Alone, in the Dark,” “Burn Alexandria,” and The Heart of the Circle, Erga Heller
Chapter 10: Naomi Alderman’s Complaint: The Power Addresses Feminist Science Fiction’s New Human Female Superheroes and Celebrates Women’s Real Bodies, Marleen S. Barr
Chapter 11: Space Time Travel: The R/evolutionary Kabbalistics of Natasha Lyonne’s Russian Doll, Adeena Karasick
Chapter 12: Nursing on the Teat of Godzilla: David Brin and Daniel Brin Reminisce With Their Childhood Friend Lisa Goldstein, Lisa Goldstein, David Brin, and Daniel Brin
Afterword: FINALLY!, Jack Dann
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