Background
Enid Sue Dame was born on June 28, 1943, in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, United States. She was a daughter of Morton Jerome Jacobs, a furniture salesman, and Bernice Mildred (Levenson) Jacobs, a secretary and stenographer.
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In 1965, Enid received a Bachelor of Science from Towson State College.
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In 1971, Enid received a Master of Arts from City College of New York.
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Enid received a Doctor of Philosophy from Rutgers University in 1983.
(Eve was not Adam's first wife. That honor belongs to Lili...)
Eve was not Adam's first wife. That honor belongs to Lilith, who was created as Adam's equal. When he tried to dominate her, she uttered God's secret name and flew away. Lilith is mentioned in the Talmud, elaborated on in the midrash and in the kabbalah, whispered about in stories, and passed down from mother to daughter. In this anthology, a vivid, provocative, and enlightening sampling of Jewish women's written responses to the Lilith myth are offered. The editors have provided the space for contemporary women to link themselves to a tradition and participate in a sacred activity, thereby infusing energy into Lilith and creating a new tradition.
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1998
Enid Sue Dame was born on June 28, 1943, in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, United States. She was a daughter of Morton Jerome Jacobs, a furniture salesman, and Bernice Mildred (Levenson) Jacobs, a secretary and stenographer.
In 1965, Enid received a Bachelor of Science from Towson State College. In 1971, she also received a Master of Arts from City College of New York and a Doctor of Philosophy from Rutgers University in 1983.
After receiving her Ph.D. from Rutgers University, Dame taught there and at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. She lectured on Jewish women’s poetry and midrashic writing at the Institute for Contemporary Midrash, for the Religious Diversity Seminars of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities and in other forums. She was co-editor of the anthology Which Lilith?: Feminist Writers Re-Create the World’s First Woman (1998). With her husband, the poet Donald Lev, she co-edited Home Planet News, a literary tabloid which the couple founded in 1979. She was also a member of the Editorial Collective of Bridges, a Jewish feminist magazine.
(Eve was not Adam's first wife. That honor belongs to Lili...)
1998Dame's poems explored themes of urban life, Jewish history and identity, and political activism. She examined contemporary women's lives in persona poems that take on the voice of Eve, Lilith, or other women from Jewish tradition. These poems often locate a kernel of feminist rebellion in familiar Biblical stories.
Quotations: "Poetry is my way of connecting to the world, and trying to understand it. I do feel poetry is a public activity and that poets have a responsibility for encouraging others to write and publish. I do this by teaching, serving as faculty advisor to a poetry club at my college, and helping to organize readings."
Enid Dame, as reflected by her work in her poetry collection Anything You Don’t See, has been compared to the poet Adrienne Rich.
Enid was three times married. Her first marriage was to William Edward Osten. They married on February 15, 1964, but in 1969 the couple divorced. On January 20, 1971, Enid married Edmond Francis Dame, but they also divorced on March 24, 1980, and on February 23, 1994, Enid married Donald Lev, a poet.