Contributors and Cover credit 

Irena Klepfisz - The Legacy, essay
Marilyn Hacker - Squares and Courtyards, poem
Cynthia Macdonald - Six poems
David Ignatow - Five poems
Daniel Stern - The Man on the Dump by Wallace Stevens, story
Alicia Ostriker - Four poems
Norman Harris - Five poems 
Jerry Mirskin - Four poems
Linda Pastan - Three poems
Marcia Pelletiere - Two poems
Michael Blumenthal - The Silent Synagogue of Köszeg, essay
                                 Visit to Majdanek, essay
                                 Lukács Fürdö: December 31, 1995, poem
Harvey Shapiro - Three poems
Mark Halperin - Three poems
Mark Perlberg - Two poems
Ira Sadoff - Six poems
Doris Radin - Two poems
Liz Rosenberg - Four poems
Faye Moskowitz - Peace in the House, story
Barbara Helfgott Hyett - Two poems
Henny Wenkart - Two poems
Ruth Stone - Eight poems
Marvin Bell - Two poems
Mark Rudman - Approach of High Holy Days, poem
Steve Stern - The Sin of Elijah, story
Scott Coffel - Two poems
Ann Z. Leventhal - Two poems
Lisa Yanover - Shtetl Life, poem
Rebecca Goldstein - Gifts of the Last Night, story
Roger Weingarten - Three poems
Richard Chess - Four poems
Sharona Ben-Tov - Three poems
Steven Schneider - Three poems
Norman Finkelstein - from Passing Over, poem
Yermiyahu Ahron Taub - Three poems
Naomi Feigelson Chase - Two poems
Emily Warn - Two poems 
Robin Becker - I'm Telling!  Secrecy and Shame in One Jewish-American Family, essay
Helen Papell - Kaddish,  poem
Judith Skillman - Two poems
Ruth Behar - Three poems
Janet Sternburg - Trochaic, story
                           His Regular Fare, story
Rodger Kamenetz - Three poems
Alvin Greenberg - Five poems
Eileen Pollack - The Pool, story
Jay Rogoff - Grandma's Cooking, poem
Robin Hemley - Jinx, story
Sanford Pinsker - Dares, Double-Dares, and the Jewish-American Writer, essay
Eleanor Wilner - The Pillar,  poem