![]() ![]() ![]() The editors used this special issue to create a community of Jewish feminists that bridges generations, classes, races, ethnicities, sexual orientations and cultural contexts. As the purpose of Sinister Wisdom is to foster a specific lesbian-feminism that includes all women across any number of diversities, “Dina” (as this issue came to be known) is a microcosm of this principle. In using this title, editors of the periodical Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz and Irena Klepfisz reclaim the potential of the tribe of women that never materialized. ![]() “The Tribe of Dina” is presumably the women Dina sought out in response to her controlling brothers. Dina is only referenced as an accessory to her powerful male relatives, except for a short anecdote about how she left Israel to seek other women. Dina is a Biblical character, the only daughter of Jewish forefather Jacob and his wife Leah, whose brothers founded the twelve tribes of Israel. The publication was so successful upon release that it was published as its own book called “ The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish Women’s Anthology” in 1989. In 1986, the radical lesbian feminist periodical Sinister Wisdom published a themed issue titled “ The Tribe of Dina.” It spans two of the four annual publications of Sinister Wisdom, making it both issue 29 and 30. ![]()
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