Sitemap - 2022 - Writing Family Histories
Family History is also always Cultural History
Rabbi Bob and I Discuss Conversion
On the anniversary of the Tree of Life Shooting...
Emory and Rabbi Bob Build a Sukkah
War and Peace and then, again War...
Reckoning with the legacies our Ancestors
Secrets... an addendum to yesterday's post
Join me for a CNF Writing Retreat in Austria this Summer!
Rabbi Bob helps me prepare for the High Holy Days
Rabbi Joe Blair of Temple Israel in Charleston
Sometimes, I am Flat Out Wrong...
Pay Attention to Present Family
Don't Trust Everything You Read...
The Past Is Not a One-way Conversation
Looking for the Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook
On Viewing Memorials to Atrocities as New Ones are Committed
Rabbi Bob Explains Things to Me:
When Your Tour Guide Wants to Tell You a Jewish Joke
Book Club: Final Thoughts on Jews Don’t Count
Visiting (kind of) the Synagogue in Graz
Dinner with my cousin Rachael in Berlin
Third Night of Passover: My First Mina!
What’s a “Bad Jew:” A Passover Story
Book Club: Jews Don't Count (part 1)
Shopping for Pesach in Vienna's Second Quarter
Prompt: Write* About A Time You Were Made to Feel Welcomed
Prompt: Write About Homesickness...
Ma and Pa Shtetl Encounter a Giant
Tell me a story about someone thriving in unexpected places or ways…
Jewish Death is not Jewish Life
When the Jews Were Expelled from the Department of Tennessee
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls...
Visiting Salzburg's Judengasse
Prompt: What wonders of the world would most intrigue your great-great grandparents?
Ma and Pa Shtetl Discover My Computer
Why I’m Actually Writing Two Books at Once
A Twitter Kerfuffle Helps Clarify My Central Question
Ma and Pa Shtetl Learn They’re Going Back to Linkuva
Review: Another Appalachia by Neema Avashia
Most Of Us Come From Refugees...
Prompt: Write the story of how you came to be born where you were born.
On (Maybe) Going to Lithuania When There is (Maybe) Going to be a War in the Baltic States…
A.I. Polan with children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren in March, 1958 (audio)
A Little to the Side of Things: A Request
Holocaust Remembrance Day and the Banning of Maus in McMinn County, TN
First Prompt: Write about a storied ancestor from publicly available information
The Mysterious Story of Uncle Henry: Update
The Mysterious Story of Uncle Henry
Unearthing My Grandfather's Ambiguity About Our Jewishness...