Marleen S. Barr taught English at The City University of New York.

• Preface: In Praise of Judith Merril, Pamela SargentIntroduction: The Invisible Jewish Woman or Closed Legs Finkelstein and Princess Vespa are Fake Jews, Marleen S. BarrChapter 1: Alien Encounters (of the Jewish Kind), Elana GomelChapter 2: Miriam Michelson’s The Superwoman and the Future of Feminist Recovery, Lori Harrison-KahanChapter 3: Seeing Judith Merril’s Personal and Professional Maternal I in “That Only a Mother”: An Intuitive Close Encounter, Leigh GoldChapter 4: On (Not) Saving the World: Joanna Russ' Extra (Ordinary) People, Steven ShaviroChapter 5: Traumatic Timescapes: Holocaust Memory in Jane Yolen’s The Devil’s Arithmetic and Nava Semel’s And the Rat Laughed, Elyce Rae HelfordChapter 6: Esther Friesner’s Funny, Serious, and Seriously Funny Speculative Fiction, Jennifer CaplanChapter 7: Gendered Memory/Jewish Biography: Reading Elana Gomel’s “Sea of Salt”, Danielle GurevitchChapter 8: Imagining a New Ashkenazi Motherland: Alternate History in Simone Zelitch’s Judenstaat, Lance StrateChapter 9: Motherhood, Survival, and Post-Humanism in Keren Landsman’s “Alone, in the Dark,” “Burn Alexandra,” and The Heart of the Circle, Erga HellerChapter 10: Naomi Alderman’s Complaint: The Power Addresses Feminist Science Fiction’s New Human Female Superheroes and Celebrates Women’s Real Bodies, Marleen S. BarrChapter 11: Space Time Travel: The R/evolutionary Kabbalistics of Natasha Lyonne’s Russian Doll, Adeena KarasickChapter 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 BrinAfterword: FINALLY!, Jack DannAbout the Editor and Contributors

Marleen S. Barr taught English at The City University of New York.

• Preface: In Praise of Judith Merril, Pamela SargentIntroduction: The Invisible Jewish Woman or Closed Legs Finkelstein and Princess Vespa are Fake Jews, Marleen S. BarrChapter 1: Alien Encounters (of the Jewish Kind), Elana GomelChapter 2: Miriam Michelson’s The Superwoman and the Future of Feminist Recovery, Lori Harrison-KahanChapter 3: Seeing Judith Merril’s Personal and Professional Maternal I in “That Only a Mother”: An Intuitive Close Encounter, Leigh GoldChapter 4: On (Not) Saving the World: Joanna Russ' Extra (Ordinary) People, Steven ShaviroChapter 5: Traumatic Timescapes: Holocaust Memory in Jane Yolen’s The Devil’s Arithmetic and Nava Semel’s And the Rat Laughed, Elyce Rae HelfordChapter 6: Esther Friesner’s Funny, Serious, and Seriously Funny Speculative Fiction, Jennifer CaplanChapter 7: Gendered Memory/Jewish Biography: Reading Elana Gomel’s “Sea of Salt”, Danielle GurevitchChapter 8: Imagining a New Ashkenazi Motherland: Alternate History in Simone Zelitch’s Judenstaat, Lance StrateChapter 9: Motherhood, Survival, and Post-Humanism in Keren Landsman’s “Alone, in the Dark,” “Burn Alexandra,” and The Heart of the Circle, Erga HellerChapter 10: Naomi Alderman’s Complaint: The Power Addresses Feminist Science Fiction’s New Human Female Superheroes and Celebrates Women’s Real Bodies, Marleen S. BarrChapter 11: Space Time Travel: The R/evolutionary Kabbalistics of Natasha Lyonne’s Russian Doll, Adeena KarasickChapter 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 BrinAfterword: FINALLY!, Jack DannAbout the Editor and Contributors

Marleen S. Barr taught English at The City University of New York.

• Preface: In Praise of Judith Merril, Pamela SargentIntroduction: The Invisible Jewish Woman or Closed Legs Finkelstein and Princess Vespa are Fake Jews, Marleen S. BarrChapter 1: Alien Encounters (of the Jewish Kind), Elana GomelChapter 2: Miriam Michelson’s The Superwoman and the Future of Feminist Recovery, Lori Harrison-KahanChapter 3: Seeing Judith Merril’s Personal and Professional Maternal I in “That Only a Mother”: An Intuitive Close Encounter, Leigh GoldChapter 4: On (Not) Saving the World: Joanna Russ' Extra (Ordinary) People, Steven ShaviroChapter 5: Traumatic Timescapes: Holocaust Memory in Jane Yolen’s The Devil’s Arithmetic and Nava Semel’s And the Rat Laughed, Elyce Rae HelfordChapter 6: Esther Friesner’s Funny, Serious, and Seriously Funny Speculative Fiction, Jennifer CaplanChapter 7: Gendered Memory/Jewish Biography: Reading Elana Gomel’s “Sea of Salt”, Danielle GurevitchChapter 8: Imagining a New Ashkenazi Motherland: Alternate History in Simone Zelitch’s Judenstaat, Lance StrateChapter 9: Motherhood, Survival, and Post-Humanism in Keren Landsman’s “Alone, in the Dark,” “Burn Alexandra,” and The Heart of the Circle, Erga HellerChapter 10: Naomi Alderman’s Complaint: The Power Addresses Feminist Science Fiction’s New Human Female Superheroes and Celebrates Women’s Real Bodies, Marleen S. BarrChapter 11: Space Time Travel: The R/evolutionary Kabbalistics of Natasha Lyonne’s Russian Doll, Adeena KarasickChapter 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 BrinAfterword: FINALLY!, Jack DannAbout the Editor and Contributors