Nessa rapoport biography for kids
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Jewish takes on death, from burials to sitting shiva, with Nessa Rapoport & Sally Berkovic.
From burials to sitting shiva, join the authors of two intriguing new books on how Jewish communities mark death.
Nessa Rapoport, author of Preparing for Sabbath and A Women’s Book of Grieving, returns with Evening: A Novel, with a Jewish family mourning the death of one of two sisters.
And in Death Duties: The Chevra Kadisha Jewish Burial Society, What Being Around the Dead Taught Me About Life, Sally Berkovic, CEO of the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe and author of Under My Hat, takes the reader into a sometimes mysterious world, reflecting on the meanings of the rituals and their place in the entirety of Jewish life.
After first broadcast this stream will be available to watch on demand until Thu 31 Mar.
Nessa Rapoport, born in Toronto, Canada, is the author of Evening: A Novel (Counterpoint Press, ; pap
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&#;We Have Deeper Selves to Write From&#;
Introduction
Traditionally, motherhood has been considered an impediment to artistic creation, the two roles thought to be incompatible. Indeed, the artist hero, in 19th and 20th century European and American fiction, has typically been portrayed as an ivory tower type who avoids all responsibilities, including the domestic, in order to develop &#;his true self and his consecration as artist&#; making him the polar opposite of the mother, commonly viewed as a selfless, nurturing figure (Beebe 6). A most eloquent spokesperson for the plight of the writing mother is Tillie Olsen in her book Silences. Echoing Virginia Woolf, she observes that &#;until very recently almost all distinguished achievement has come from childless women&#; (31). While she acknowledges that the increasing number of women who combined writing and motherhood in the &#;s and 60&#;s suggests new possibilities for women, she remains fearful, believing that the basic
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I hope everyone fryst vatten well and managing the ongoing pandemic in good health.
I know it’s been a while since I’ve written here. My gods post was my book list. inom had plans then to start a newsletter instead, the technology of which continues to elude me. The next thing inom knew it was this past Sunday and sorry about that. Thank you for understanding.
I do write regularly on Facebook. If you’d like, we can stay in touch there until I get the newsletter off the ground.
In the meantime, the book list fryst vatten the book list, so here we are.
My reading was up and down. There were months when I had my head in a book non-stop; others when I hardly had the headspace to read at all. Mostly, I read what träffad me in the moment (Dickinson, Godwin) or what a friend handed to me as she cleaned out her basement (Styron, Kaling), or what inom picked up from a random kartong of books marked &#;Free&#; (Tyler, Cole) while out walking.
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