Judy Lev | Author
Publications
Books
COVER ART: HANANYA GOODMAN
Our Names Do Not Appear, a memoir, published by Lioness Books in 2023, renders the confusion of silenced childhood grief and explores its effects throughout a lifetime.
PHOTO CREDIT: DEBBI COOPER
Bethlehem Road: Stories of Immigration and Exile, published by She Writes Press and distributed by Simon & Schuster, will be released Oct. 21, 2025. Twelve stories follow the struggles of twelve immigrants searching for meaning and happiness on Jerusalem’s vibrant thoroughfare in late 20th century Israel.
Stories
What To Do with the Past, Ilanot Review 1:1, 2010 p.94
Law of Return, Bridging the Cultural Divide: Remembering September 11th, 2011, Intercultural Alliance of Artists and Scholars, Inc.
Dispersion, A Tale, Judy Stonehill Labensohn, The Kenyon Review, Summer 1993
Every Man a Lamb, Jewishfiction.net, Issue 3, February 24, 2011
The Queen of Slow Motion, Jewish Sports Stories for Kids, Pitspopany Press, 2004
Homecoming, 1982, Consequence Magazine: An International Literary Magazine Focusing on the Culture of War, 10th Anniversary Edition Women on War, Spring 2018
Explosion, Hadassah Magazine,
June/July 2007
Personal Essays
Two Takes on the Kitchen Sink, by Judy Lev, Evening Street Review No. 30, Summer 2021, from Our Names Do Not Appear
Leaving Babylon: A Walk through the Jewish Divorce Ceremony, by Judyth Har-Even, Creative Nonfiction Vol. 19 Diversity Dialogues 2002
In Search of Drip, Southwest Review Vol. 92, No. 2, 2007
Leaving, by Judy Lev, biostories.com 2020
Giving Away Grief, Lilith Magazine, Spring 2017
Side Effects, Harpur Palate, Vol 18, No. 1, 2019
The Morning My Father Met Ernest Hemingway on the Way to the Promised Land, Lilith Magazine, Spring 1999
Follow Me: A Mother’s Day in the Israeli Army, Brain, Child: the magazine for thinking mothers, December 2013
Diving Into Mount Zion, Michigan Quarterly Review
Holding On, Fourth Genre Vol. 10 No. 1 Spring 2008 from Our Names Do Not Appear
Volunteer in the Garden of Eden, Natural Bridge No. 9, Spring 2003
Gretel, Kenyon Review Online. House
Anthologies & Textbooks
“Leaving Babylon” in Other Words: A Writer’s Reader, UMass Amhert Writing Program Editorial Collective, 2009
“Leaving Babylon” in In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction, W.W. Norton, 2005
“Back from the Front” in Jewish Possibilities: The Best of Moment Magazine, 1987
“Applelore” by Judy Stonehill in Headway: A Thematic Reader, Holt. Rinehart and Winston, Inc. 1970
All Our Lives: An Anthology of Contemporary Jewish Writing, edited by Sarah Shapiro, 2009
Prizes
Nomination for a Pushcart Prize 2013, “Follow Me: A Mother’s Day in the Israeli Army,” Brain, Child: a magazine for thinking mothers
Honorable Mention: 19th New Millennium Writings Awards 2005 for “Left Thumb, Right
Hand, Lip: On Thumb Sucking and Writing”
Honorable Mention: Moment Magazine’s Annual Short Story Contest 2003 for “The First Pregnancy in Jerusalem”
Finalist, The Walter V. Shipley Best Essay Award, June 2002, sponsored by Chase Manhattan Bank and Creative Nonfiction for “Leaving Babylon: A Walk through the Jewish Divorce Ritual”