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"Red Tent" author shares her insights
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so long. My name means nothing to
you.
My memory is dust. The chain
Special to the Jewish News
connecting mother to daughter was bro-
ken and the word passed to the keeping
uthor Anita Diamant could-
of men, who had no way of knowing.
n't change that only 10 per-
That
is why I became a footnote. On
cent of the 2,800 names
those
rare occasions when I was remem-
mentioned in the Old
bered, it was as a victim. . . Maybe you
Testament belong to females. But she
guessed that there was
could — and
more to me than the
did — give one
voiceless cipher in the
of those women
F,.
text.
a powerful voice
"Maybe you heard
in her novel The 0
0
it
in
the music of my
Red Tent, and
name,
the first vowel
she came here to
high
and
clear, as
talk about her.
when a mother calls to
Diamant
her child at dusk; the
opened the
second sound soft, for
three-part series
whispering
secrets on
"Jewish Women:
pillows.
`Dee-nah.'
Then, Now and
"No one recalled
What's Next" to :s4. 0.1 4AVA lt "Okk•W W:MAk.W W ,*.
my
skill as a midwife
a 900-person,
or the songs I sang or
mostly female
the bread I baked for
crowd, Dec. 1 at
my insatiable brothers.
Temple Israel.
.. Had I been asked
Anita Diamant speaks at Temple Israel
The program
to
speak of it, I would
was presented by
have
begun with the
the Jewish
story
of
the
generation
that
raised me,
Community Center of Metropolitan
which
is
the
only
place
to
begin."
Detroit, Temple Israel Sisterhood and
What follows is an almost hypnotic
co-sponsored by the Jewish News.
The Red Tent is Diamant's story about narrative during which the reader is
transported with Dinah from her birth-
Dinah, sister to the biblical Joseph and
place of Haran, on to her grandparents
his 11 brothers and the only daughter
Rebecca and Isaac's home in Canaan,
born to the patriarch Jacob by his wife,
later
to Shechem, scene of great tragedy,
Leah. The "tent" of the tide refers to the
and
finally
to Egypt, where Dinah
private domain that fertile women shel-
becomes
a
mother
herself.
ter in during their own "lunar" cycles.
We travel down dusty paths with the
The retreat is not just for a physical sep-
young Dinah, smell the musk of the
aration from men, but actually serves as
sheep and goats and the pungent cook-
a bonding ritual and spiritual renewal
ing odors emanating from the transitory
shared with female relatives and com-
fires. We can almost feel the water
panions to honor Rosh Chodesh, the
refresh our skin and, with Dinah, mar-
first day of the new month, signified by
vel
at how the buoyant stream takes
the new moon.
away the anticipated fear of being car-
"Leah was so mistreated in the Bible,
ried away by some current. We see the
that I was spurred to focus on Dinah, so
brilliance of an evening sky from a
she, too, would not be underrepresent-
desert blanket.
ed," said Diamant, who enthralled the
From childhood, through adoles-
audience with narrative from her novel
cence, to maturity, from the protection
as well as personal commentary.
of her female relatives to her aloneness
Reading from The Red Tent's pro-
in Egypt — Dinah tells us what it was
logue, she said:
like
to have not one, but four mothers,
"We have been lost to each other for

DEBBIE WALLIS LANDAU

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