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| jessica hagedorn poems: Dogeaters Jessica Hagedorn, 2013-08-06 Finalist for the National Book Award and a 2015 Wall Street Journal Book Club selection: An intense portrait of the Philippines in the late 1950s. Dogeaters follows a diverse set of characters through Manila, each exemplifying the country’s sharp distinctions between social classes. Celebrated novelist and playwright Jessica Hagedorn effortlessly shifts from the capital’s elite to the poorest of the poor. From the country’s president and first lady to an idealist reformer, from actors and radio DJs to prostitutes, seemingly unrelated lives become intertwined. |
| jessica hagedorn poems: Dogeaters Jessica Hagedorn, 2024-11-12 “An original, raw, and wild novel that has held its power and demands to be read.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and Winner of the American Book Award Jessica Hagedorn is the recipient of The Before Columbus Foundation’s 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award A classic and influential story centered on the cultural and political stakes of life in Marcos-era Philippines One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Welcome to Manila in the turbulent period of the Philippines’ late dictator. It is a world in which American pop culture and local Filipino tradition mix flamboyantly, and gossip, storytelling, and extravagant behavior thrive. A wildly disparate group of characters—including movie stars and waiters, a young junkie and the richest man in the Philippines—becomes ensnared in a spiral of events culminating in a beauty pageant, a film festival, and an assassination. At the center of this maelstrom is Rio, a feisty schoolgirl who will grow up to live in America and look back with longing on the land of her youth. |
| jessica hagedorn poems: Danger and Beauty Jessica Hagedorn, 2002-03 Hagedorn muses about love and sex, and probes with wry humor and sharp social satire the heart-and hearbreaks-of the immigrant experience. Jessica Hagedorn is one of the best of a new generation of writers who are making American language new and who in the process are creating a new American Literature.-Russell Banks [Hagedorn] sees her native land from both near and far, with ambivalent love, the only kind of love worth writing about.-John Updike Jessica Hagedorn is a performance artist, poet, playwright, and formerly a commentator on NPR. Her novel, Dogeaters, won an American Book Award. Other books include the groundbreaking Charlie Chan Is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction and The Gangster of Love. |
| jessica hagedorn poems: Four Young Women: Poems Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn, 1973 |
| jessica hagedorn poems: Pet Food & Tropical Apparitions Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn, 1981 |
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| jessica hagedorn poems: Manila Noir Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn, 2013 Manila is not for the faint of heart. Population: over ten million and growing by the minute. Climate: hot, humid and prone to torrential monsoon rains of biblical proportions. The ultimate femme fatale, she's complicated and mysterious, with a tainted, painful past. The perfect, torrid setting for noir. Edited by Dogeaters (Penguin, 1991) author and National Book Award Nominee Jessica Hagedorn, and featuring original stories from a stunning group of multi-award-winning authors. |
| jessica hagedorn poems: Returning a Borrowed Tongue Nick Carbó, 1995 Poets from both sides of the Pacific join together for the first time in this 50th anniversary anthology. |
| jessica hagedorn poems: Dream Jungle Jessica Hagedorn, 2004-09-28 One of Jessica Hagedorn's most daring novels—“a deft and complex tale of corruption, fealty, and integrity” (The Baltimore Sun) In a Philippines of desperate beauty and rank corruption, two seemingly unrelated events occur: the discovery of an ancient lost tribe living in a remote mountainous area and the arrival of a celebrity-studded, American film crew, there to make an epic Vietnam War movie. But the lost tribe may be a clever hoax and the Hollywood movie seems doomed as the cast and crew continue to self-destruct in a cloud of drugs and ego. As the consequences of these events play out, four unforgettable characters—a wealthy, iconoclastic playboy; a woman ensnared in the sex industry; a Filipino-American writer; and a jaded actor—find themselves drawn irrevocably together in this lavish, sensual portrait of a nation in crisis. |
| jessica hagedorn poems: Making More Waves Elaine H. Kim, Lilia V. Villanueva, Asian Women United of California, 1997 A collection of autobiographical writings, short stories, poetry, essays, and photos by and about Asian American women. |
| jessica hagedorn poems: Toxicology Jessica Hagedorn, 2011-04-14 A bold new novel about the intersection of art, love, fame, and money from the acclaimed author of Dogeaters. Jessica Hagedorn's edgy and entertaining new novel centers on the lives of two women who are neighbors in Manhattan's West Village. Mimi Smith is a filmmaker of low-budget slasher movies in search of new material. Her neighbor Eleanor Delacroix is a legendary writer of erotic fiction, now nearing eighty and addicted to cocaine and gin. Their personal and artistic lives begin to collide in unexpected ways as Eleanor grieves over the recent death of her live-in lover, the renowned painter Yvonne Wilder, and as Mimi deals with the challenges presented by her newly sober brother Carmelo; her drug-dealing boyfriend, who has mysteriously disappeared; and her wayward fourteen-year-old daughter, Violet. Looming over all these characters is the ghost of Agnes-an illegal and cousin of Mimi's who might have been murdered by her New Jersey employers. Toxicology is a dark yet playful exploration of money, desire, mortality, and the connection between creativity and self-destruction. |
| jessica hagedorn poems: Charlie Chan is Dead Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn, 1993 Stories by and about Asian Americans published from 1933 to the present. |
| jessica hagedorn poems: Heaven is Just Another Country Jaime Jacinto, 1996 |
| jessica hagedorn poems: Unsettling America Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Jennifer Gillan, 1994-11-01 A multicultural array of poets explore what it is means to be American This powerful and moving collection of poems stretches across the boundaries of skin color, language, ethnicity, and religion to give voice to the lives and experiences of ethnic Americans. With extraordinary honesty, dignity, and insight, these poems address common themes of assimilation, communication, and self-perception. In recording everyday life in our many American cultures, they displace the myths and stereotypes that pervade our culture. Unsettling America includes work by: Amiri Baraka Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Rita Dove Louise Erdich Jessica Hagedorn Joy Harjo Garrett Hongo Li-Young Lee Pat Mora Naomi Shihab Nye Marye Percy Ishmael Reed Alberto Rios Ntozake Shange Gary Soto Lawrence Ferlinghetti Nellie Wong David Hernandez Mary TallMountain ...and many more. |
| jessica hagedorn poems: The Gangster of Love Jessica Hagedorn, 1997-10-01 Nominated for The Irish Times International Fiction Prize. The author's first novel, Dogeaters, was nominated for a National Book Award in 1990 and was voted the best book of the year by the Before Columbus Foundation.Rocky Rivera arrives in the U.S. from the Philippines the day that Jimi Hendrix dies. So begins a blazing coming-of-age story suffused with the tensions of immigration which finds Rocky moving from the counter-culture in 1960s San Francisco to the extravagant music scene in Manhattan of the 1980s.The Gangster of Love tells the story of the Rivera family as they make their new life in the States all the while haunted by the memory of the father and the homeland they left behind. Among its members are Rocky's haughty mother, who has impulsively left her father; Voltaire, her brother, prone to heavy depression and odd friendships with strangers; and Rocky herself, unsure about sex and worshipful of her boyfriend, the guitar-playing Elvis Chang, who must learn to accept reality amidst the myths and lures of American success and idolatry. |
| jessica hagedorn poems: The Forbidden Stitch Shirley Lim, Mayumi Tsutakawa, Margarita Donnelly, 1989 This first U.S. anthology of work by Asian-American women contains poetry, prose, and graphic art, and a section of reviews of previously published literature. These women, in contrast to their foremothers, repeatedly identify themselves through their art. Very often they do this by showing who they are not--not male, not white. The works reveal their pride in their cultural heritage. ISBN 0-934971-10-2: |
| jessica hagedorn poems: Bowery Women Bob Holman, Marjorie Tesser, 2006-10 So here you go, seventy-six women poets who've all read at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City. One poet, one poem, one photo, that's the recipe for this book. Poets were asked to send their Greatest Hit. (One poet wrote a wonderful Letter of Opposition about how you cannot reduce an oeuvre to a unit: I wish we had room to print it ) We look on this book as an introduction--a go-to starting point for the women who helped open the gates to the Academy of the Future of 21st Century Poetry. This is book so revolutionary and patterned by today's time, the editors decided to alphabetize the poets by first names because computers do it that way and who says that patronyms win all the time anyway? So who's your fave? Just remember to look for her by first name-- Alana Ruben Free Amy Ouzoonian Ana Castillo Ange Mlinko Ann Enzminger Anne Waldman Brenda Coultas Carla Harryman Celena Glenn Cheryl Boyce Taylor Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz Cynthia Kraman Daphne Gottlieb Dawn Saylor Deanna Zandt Diane Burns Donna Masini Elaine Equi Elinor Nauen Elizabeth-Jane Burnett Emily XYZ Fay Chiang Gabriella Santoro Hettie Jones Honor Moore Ishle Yi Park Jackie Sheeler Jan Heller Levi Janet Hamill Janice Erlbaum Janine Pommy Vega Jen Benka Jennifer Blowdryer Jessica Hagedorn Joy Harjo Kathryn M. Fazio Kim Rosenfield Kristin Prevallet Lee Ann Brown Leslie Scalapino Leticia Viloria liz maher Lynne N. Procope Maggie Balistreri Maggie Dubris Marie Howe Marie Ponsot Marjorie Tesser Martha Rhodes Marty McConnell Mary Reilly Maureen Owen May Joseph Melissa Goodrum Nancy Mercado Naomi Shihab Nye The O'Debra Twins Patricia Smith Patricia Spears Jones Rachel Levitsky Radhiyah Ayobami Regina Cabico Sapphire Sarah Herrington Sarah Quinter Seren Divine Shanna Compton Simone Gorrindo Suheir Hammad Tara Betts Tish Benson Tsaurah Litzky Vicki Hudspith Wanda Coleman Zhang Er Bowery Women is the third book in the Bowery Books Poetry series following Taylor Mead's A Simple Country Girl and The Bowery Bartenders Big Book of Poems. |
| jessica hagedorn poems: An Ear to the Ground Marie Harris, Kathleen Aguero, 1989 A multicultural anthology of contemporary American poetry, featuring works by over one hundred famous and lesser-known writers, including Gwendolyn Brooks, Sandra Cisneros, Simon Oritz, and Ray A. Young Bear. |
| jessica hagedorn poems: Go Home! Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, 2018-02-19 An anthology of Asian diasporic writers musing on the notion of “home.” “Bold and devastating . . . the very definition of reclamation.” —The International Examiner Asian diasporic writers imagine “home” in the twenty-first century through an array of fiction, memoir, and poetry. Both urgent and meditative, this anthology moves beyond the model-minority myth and showcases the singular intimacies of individuals figuring out what it means to belong. “The notion of home has always been elusive. But as evidenced in these stories, poems, and testaments, perhaps home is not so much a place, but a feeling one embodies. I read this book and see my people—see us—and feel, in our collective outsiderhood, at home.” —Ocean Vuong, New York Times-bestselling author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous “To be from nowhere is the state of Asian diaspora, but there is also a wild humor and imagination that comes from being underestimated, rarely counted, hardly seen. Here, we begin to draw the hopeful outlines of a collective history for those so disparate yet often lumped together.” —Jenny Zhang, author of My Baby First Birthday “Language allows for many homes, and perhaps the writers—and readers of the anthology too—will succeed in returning home, or finding a home, through these words.” —NPR.org “Effectively dismantling all sorts of stereotypes, Buchanan’s anthology gives voice to notions of identity, belonging and displacement that are much more vast, complex and textually rich than mere geography.” —Shelf Awareness “Revolutionary for all the iterations of ‘home’ it shows through fiction, poetry, and memoir, sure to provoke a full range of emotions to swoon and clutch in my chest.” —Literary Hub |
| jessica hagedorn poems: Asian American Poetry Victoria Chang, 2004 This exciting anthology of work by up-and-coming writers is the first to profile a new generation of Asian American poets. Building on the legacy of now-canonized poets, such as Li-Young Lee, Cathy Song, and Garrett Hongo, who were the first to achieve widespread recognition in the American literary community, this new generation also strikes off in bold new directions. Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation gathers for the first time a broad cross section of the very best work of these young poets, all under the age of forty, including Timothy Liu, Adrienne Su, Sue Kwock Kim, Rick Barot, Brenda Shaughnessy, Mong-Lan, as well as less familiar names. A foreword by Marilyn Chin puts the book in context of both Asian American national identity and history, and makes the important distinctions between generations clear. Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation opens the door on a dynamic, developing part of the poetic world, making it finally accessible to students, scholars, and poetry fans alike. |
| jessica hagedorn poems: Modern American Poetry: Jessica Hagedorn (1949- ). , The Department of English of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign presents information about the life and works of Filipino-born American poet Jessica Hagedorn (1949- ), as part of Modern American Poetry (MAPS). The information includes descriptions of Hagedorn's work, a biographical sketch, a selection of poems, and access to additional resources. |
| jessica hagedorn poems: Saturday Night at the Pahala Theater Lois-Ann Yamanaka, 1993 Kala gave me any kine advice especially about Filipinos when I moved to Pahala -- Kala: sitting on our bikes by the Catholic church -- Kala: captain of the volleyball team -- Kala: Saturday night at the Pahala Theatre -- Kala: grad party -- Tita: the bathroom -- Tita: Japs -- Tita: user -- Tita: on fat -- Tita: boyfriends -- Girlie: Monday after school -- Girlie and faso face the music -- Girlie and Asi Frenz4-Eva -- Tongues – Parts -- Boss of the food -- Chicken pox -- Yarn wig -- Lickens -- Dead dogs RIP -- Prince PoPo, Prince Jiji -- Haupu Mountain -- Pueo don't fly -- Turtles -- Kid -- Glass -- My eyes adore you -- Ravine -- Empty heart -- Name me is. |
| jessica hagedorn poems: More Light Jason Shinder, 1993 Collected here for the first time is a wondrous array of over 80 contemporary American voices who all have something to say about the relationship between fathers and daughters. Contributors include Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Gwendolyn Brooks, Richard Wilbur, Bob Dylan, Raymond Carver, Sharon Olds, and others. |
| jessica hagedorn poems: From the Cables of Genocide Lorna Dee Cervantes, 1991 The second collection of poems by American author Lorna Dee Cervantes. |
| jessica hagedorn poems: Toxic Flora: Poems Kimiko Hahn, 2011-10-03 For Kimiko Hahn, the language and imagery of science open up magical possibilities for the poet. In her haunting eighth collection inspired by articles from the weekly Science section of the New York Times, Hahn explores identity, extinction, and survival using exotic tropes drawn from the realms of astrophysics, mycology, paleobotany, and other rarefied fields. With warmth and generosity, Hahn mines the world of science in these elegant, ardent poems.from On Deceit as SurvivalYet another species resemblesa female bumble bee,ending in frustrated trysts--or appears to be two fractious maleswhich also attracts--no surprise--a third curious enough to join the fray.What to make of highly evolved Beautybent on deception as survival-- |
| jessica hagedorn poems: Moment's Notice Art Lange, Nathaniel Mackey, 1993 The editors have collected the jazz-inspired works of close to sixty writers ranging from Julio Cortazar and Jessica Hagedorn to Langston Hughes and Ishmael Reed.Moment's Notice is the best anthology of jazz literature I've ever seen.--Bart Schneider,Hungry Mind Review ¶The jazz anthology to end all jazz anthologies.--Booklist |
| jessica hagedorn poems: Fake House Linh Dinh, 2000-09-05 Fake House, the first collection of short stories by poet Linh Dinh, explores the weird, atrocious, fond, and ongoing intimacies between Vietnam and the United States. Linked by a complicated past, the characters are driven by an intense and angry energy. The politics of race and sex anchor Dinh's work as his men and women negotiate their way in a post-Vietnam War world. Dinh has said of his own work, I incorporate a filth or uncleanness to make the picture more healthy--not to defile anything. While Fake House delves into the lives of marginal souls in two cultures, the characters' dignity lies, ultimately, in how they face the conflict in themselves and the world. |
| jessica hagedorn poems: Danger and Beauty Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn, 1993 Drawn from the essence of Latin soul and free jazz, rich evocations of the author's ancestral roots. |
| jessica hagedorn poems: Bridgeable Shores Luis Cabalquinto, 2001 Bridgeable Shores: Selected Poems and New (1969-2001) is the first U.S. publication of the work of the revered Filipino-American poet Luis Cabalquinto. This long overdue collection features the compassion, wisdom and well-being gained from the mulit-ethnic worlds the author inhabits. Comprising four sections in total, it is the first two that form the heart of the book: Morningland, which features poems inspired by the Philippines, and Sun on Ice, inspired by New York. By choosing this structure of two separate but bridgeable shores, Cabalquinto embodies the expatriate Filipino as poet and celebrates the possibility of crosscultural harmony. |
| jessica hagedorn poems: Poems from the Edge of Extinction Chris McCabe, 2021-12-09 Gold winner in Poetry and Special Honors Award winner for Best Anthology Nautilus Book Awards The Beautiful New Treasury of Poetry in Endangered Languages, in Association with the National Poetry Library Featuring award-winning poets from cultures as diverse as the Ainu people of Japan to the Zoque of Mexico, with languages that range from the indigenous Ahtna of Alaska to the Shetlandic dialect of Scots, this evocative collection gathers together 50 of the finest poems in endangered, or vulnerable, languages from across the continents. With poems by influential, award-winning poets such as US poet laureate Joy Harjo, Hawad, Valzhyna Mort, and Jackie Kay, this collection offers a unique insight into both languages and poetry, taking the reader on an emotional, life-affirming journey into the cultures of these beautiful languages, celebrating our linguistic diversity and highlighting our commonalities and the fundamental role verbal art plays in human life. Each poem appears in its original form, alongside an English translation, and is accompanied by a commentary about the language, the poet and the poem - in a vibrant celebration of life, diversity, language, and the enduring power of poetry. One language is falling silent every two weeks. Half of the 7,000 languages spoken in the world today will be lost by the end of this century. With the loss of these languages, we also lose the unique poetic traditions of their speakers and writers. This timely anthology is passionately edited by widely published poet and UK National Poetry Librarian, Chris McCabe, who is also the founder of the Endangered Poetry Project, a major project launched by London's Southbank Centre to collect poetry written in the world's disappearing languages, and introduced by Dr Mandana Seyfeddinipur, Director of the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme and the Endangered Languages Archive at SOAS University of London, and Dr Martin Orwin, Senior Lecturer in Somali and Amharic, SOAS University of London. Languages included in the book: Assyrian; Belarusian; Chimiini; Irish Gaelic; Maori; Navajo; Patua; Rotuman; Saami; Scottish Gaelic; Welsh; Yiddish; Zoque Poets included in the book: Joy Harjo; Hawad; Jackie Kay; Aurélia Lassaque; Nineb Lamassu; Gearóid Mac Lochlainn; Valzhyna Mort; Laura Tohe; Taniel Varoujan; Avrom Sutzkever |
| jessica hagedorn poems: Joker, Joker, Deuce Paul Beatty, 1994-03 A collection of poems about Afro-Americans and their place in the American society. The subjects range from a eulogy of John Brown to criticism of a poet who sells out to the white establishment. |
| jessica hagedorn poems: The NuyorAsian Anthology Bino A. Realuyo, 1999 |
| jessica hagedorn poems: A Life of Kenneth Rexroth Linda Hamalian, 1992 A poet and activist, Kenneth Rexroth is a central figure in the San Francisco literary renaissance. But his nature and love poetry have left their mark on several generations of modern poets, from the Beats to Denise Levertov, Carolyn Forche, and Jessica Hagedorn. A complex person, Rexroth was a self-taught man of great knowledge, a consummate storyteller, a man who could be thoroughly charming one day and who could take your head off the next. In the definitive and only biography, Linda Hamalian explores Rexroth's life and work in all their depth. |
| jessica hagedorn poems: The Last Thing Patrick Rosal, 2021-10-05 A momentous collection from the author of Brooklyn Antediluvian, winner of the 2017 Lenore Marshall Prize from Academy of American Poets For nearly two decades, Patrick Rosal has been one of the most beloved and admired poets in the United States, bringing together the most dynamic aspects of literary and performance poetry. The son of Filipino immigrants (his father was a lapsed Catholic priest), he has made a life of bridging worlds—literary, ethnic, national, spiritual—through his poetry, and has been recognized with some of the highest honors and countless devoted readers. The Last Thing: New & Selected Poems, gives us a substantial playlist of new work—hard-hitting and big-hearted—along with ample selections from his first four books. Bursting with music, infused with love and awe, this is essential reading from a poet of vigor and conscience. |
| jessica hagedorn poems: Interrogation Room Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, 2018-03-06 How to connect to the past, imagined, researched, and lived? This is the question that Kwon Dobbs asks in her haunting new book. |
| jessica hagedorn poems: Rolling the R's R. Zamora Linmark, 1997 Thirty-seven stories and poems on Hawaii's Kalihi Valley. The subjects range from the clash of cultures between whites and natives, to the plight of a 10-year-old girl who becomes pregnant. |
| jessica hagedorn poems: Breaking Silence Joseph Bruchac, 1983 Brief biographical sketches and selections of poetry from 50 Asian American and Asian Canadian poets. |
| jessica hagedorn poems: Filipino Women Writers in English Edna Zapanta-Manlapaz, 2003 The first of its kind in Philippine scholarship. It chronicles the evolution of Philippine literature simultaneously in terms of medium (English) and gender (women). In addition, the book proposes hypotheses regarding the whys and wherefores of this specific segment of Philippine literature.--Page [4] of cover. |
| jessica hagedorn poems: A Song for Lost Angels Kevin Thaddeus Fisher-Paulson, 2015-12-01 This book tells the intimate history of a family of two men plus triplets that came together suddenly one day, and thrived for a year before being torn apart by groundless prejudice. San Francisco author Kevin Fisher-Paulson tells this riveting story with grace, dignity, and a surprisingly generous dose of humor. A Song for Lost Angels takes the discussion of gay marriage to the next level, where the rights and struggles of gay parents and their kids can be openly recognized. This family history will make you laugh, cry, and sometimes sputter with outrage, even as it redefines what Americans call family values. Originally published by Fearless Books, this Second Edition has been updated with a new selection of photos. A German edition is published by Edition Spuren. Finalist, LGBT Category, 2015 Benjamin Franklin Awards, Independent Book Publishers Association Finalist, GBLT Category and Finalist, Memoirs Category, 2015 Next Generation Indie Book Awards |
| jessica hagedorn poems: Alien Miss Carlina Duan, 2021-03-09 In her stunning second collection, Carlina Duan illuminates unabashed odes to lineage, small and sacred moments of survival, and the demand to be fully seen spangling with light. Tracing familial lore and love, Duan reflects on the experience of growing up as a diasporic, bilingual daughter of immigrants, exploring the fraught complexities of identity, belonging, and linguistic reclamation. Alien Miss brings forth beautifully powerful voices: immigrants facing the Chinese Exclusion Act, the first Chinese American woman to vote, and matriarchal ancestors. The poems in this ambitious collection are immersed in the knotted blood of sisterhood, both celebrating and challenging conceptions of inheritance and homeland. I browse through archives full of men and women with long black hair, throwing themselves into the land. thread of grass. thread of immaculate touch. paper son, or paper daughter. my own papers marked with wings, the pointed tip of an eagle's beak. here, I'm made prey. I pledge allegiance. --Excerpt from Alien Miss Confronts the Author |
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Jessica (given name) - Wikipedia
Jessica (originally Iessica, also Jesica, Jesika, Jessicah, Jessika, or Jessikah) [1] is a female given name of Hebrew origin. The oldest written record of the name with its current spelling is …
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Jun 5, 2025 · Learn more about the meaning, origin, and popularity of the name Jessica. How Popular Is the Name Jessica? The first recorded instance of the name Jessica is in William …
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Jessica is a traditionally feminine name with Hebrew roots meaning "rich" or "God beholds" — it comes from the Hebrew "yiskah," and variations include Iska, Jeska, Yessica,...
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Jun 8, 2025 · Jessica is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "behold or wealthy". Jessica is the 574 ranked female name by popularity.
Meaning, origin and history of the name Jessica
Oct 6, 2024 · It reached its peak of popularity in the United States in 1987, and was the top ranked name for girls between 1985 and 1995, excepting 1991 and 1992 (when it was unseated by …
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Jun 9, 2025 · The name Jessica is primarily a female name of Hebrew origin that means God Beholds. The name was invented by Shakespeare for the daughter of a Jewish merchant in " …
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