Eleanor J. Bader
Chutzpah, savvy, sexuality, yeshiva, and the Bible.
Alicia Jo Rabins on Biblical Women and Memoir
Tag: memoir
Rabbi Angela Buchdahl’s Memoir Captures Hearts and Souls
Judy Bolton-Fasman
A glimpse into Rabbi Angela Buchdahl’s remarkable journey — “from feeling like an outsider to becoming one of the most admired religious leaders in the world.”
Sounding Like Yourself: A Lilith Memoir Writing Workshop
Sarah M. Seltzer
One of the biggest challenges you likely face as a writer is trying to develop (and hear, and believe in) your own voice. You’ll discover your own indelible voice—one that doesn’t sound like anyone else—in a session facilitated by Lilith writer, facilitator, and children’s book author Marcella White Campbell.
Sounding Like Yourself: A Lilith Memoir Writing Workshop
Sarah M. Seltzer
When you read your favorite author, a unique voice leaps off the page and burrows into your head. But one of the biggest challenges you likely face as a writer… Read more »
Delving into a Family Tragedy
Eleanor J. Bader
Over time, Ross-Dolen learned the cause of her mother’s sadness: A fiery plane crash between two commercial jets in December 1960 killed her mom’s parents.
Finding Myself in a Memoir About Someone Else
Shayna Goodman
Trauma does not exist in a vacuum — it’s always layered.
A Kaddish in Havana
Hasia Diner
I think of her not just as the source of my wallets and maracas, but as a hero of the revolution, someone who stayed when so many of her peers left.
Davon Loeb: Writing In-Between (and Outside) the Lines
Martha Anne Toll
“How could I pick just one when I was, ethnically, as Black as I was Jewish-white?”
An Octogenarian’s Memoir of Wild Midlife Reinvention
Yona Zeldis McDonough
“Naked at the Helm” takes on the second half of life.
A Writer’s Final Farewell to a Spouse
Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler
I was hesitant to pick up In Love as a newlywed. I am superstitious enough to worry about inviting misfortune by way of acknowledging it. But when I stood under the chuppah last November and married my husband, I remember thinking about death.