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Beyond the pale dykewomon5/25/2023 “May her memory be a blessing.”īorn Elana Nachman in New York City in 1949, Dykewomon changed her name after the publication of her first novel, “Riverfinger Women,” in 1974. “We mourn the loss of Elana Dykewomon, a queer activist, author, and teacher with a fiercely dedicated readership,” the Jewish Women’s Archive said in a tweet, in one of many tributes to come after Dykewomon’s death. It came just minutes before her first play, inspired by the 2016 death of her wife, was to be performed in an elite festival. It remains a classic in the genre, where Dykewomon, who died last week at 72,ĭykewomon’s death Sunday in Oakland, Calif., where she had lived for many years, was caused by esophageal cancer, according to her family. The book won the 1998 Lambda Literary Award for lesbian fiction and was reissued in 2013. “So part of what the novel is about is searching for our ancestors and ancestral community as “It can’t be that we are the first generation of Jewish lesbian activists on the planet,” Dykewoman said at the time. “Beyond the Pale,” Elana Dykewomon’s award-winning 1997 novel, traced the intertwined stories of Jewish lesbians from Kishinev, Moldova, to the Lower East Side, in a saga that included both Russian pogroms and the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
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