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All in the Right Time

Be-wigged tour guides were talking Revolutionary history to tourists as I exited the steamy subway onto Boston Commons a few weeks ago. I climbed the cobblestoned streets of Beacon Hill, where British… more →

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All in the Right Time — 3 comments

Louise Steinman wrote 8 months ago: Be-wigged tour guides were talking Revolutionary history to tourists as I exited the steamy subway o … more →

Tags: Boston Center for Jewish Culture, Beacon Press, Beacon Hill, Eboo Patel, vilna shul, lithuanian immigrants, Kate Bornstein

Sunday in the park in Warsaw — 5 comments

Louise Steinman wrote 1 year ago: A balmy late August Sunday in Warsaw and it feels like the entire city is out walking, bicycling thr … more →

Tags: Poland

Friends in Warsaw, Late Summer 2011 — 8 comments

Louise Steinman wrote 1 year ago: It is such a pleasure to visit friends in a foreign city, though Warsaw sometimes feels as familiar … more →

Tags: Poland, Literature, Warsaw, Lazienski Gardens, matthijs van boxsel, Morosophy, Warsaw University Library gardens

Yizkor Bucher (The Glatstein Chronicles) — 7 comments

Louise Steinman wrote 1 year ago: [published in the Los Angeles Review of Books] 27th Jun 2011 Louise Steinman Spring in Gościeradzu b … more →

Tags: Poland, Poetry, Literature, Glatstein Chronicles, Radomsko, Jacob Glatstein, ruth wisse, Los Angeles Review of Books, Night of Long Knives

Why Is This Night Different? — 9 comments

Louise Steinman wrote 2 years ago: I was on a bus to Jerusalem in 1975 when I opened and read a letter from a friend in Los Angeles inf … more →

Tags: Family History, Los Angeles, Theater, Herschel Lymon, jim jones massacre, Passover Seder, temple akiba

Thoughts Towards Japan — 12 comments

Louise Steinman wrote 2 years ago: March 24, 2011 On this bright March day in Los Angeles, my thoughts are turned to Japan. I write on … more →

Tags: The Souvenir: A Daughter Discovers Her Father's War, Suibara, Higashi-Matsushima, Tsunami, Shoko Asahara, Siberian swans, Pacific War, war and reconciliation

Sarah's Brain — 12 comments

Louise Steinman wrote 2 years ago: Sarah Rebecca Steinman, eldest daughter of my younger brother, is named for her two great-grandmothe … more →

Tags: edmond jabès, Zhitomir, Jewish Heritage, Juaneno, Sarah Rebecca Steinman

Traces — 3 comments

Louise Steinman wrote 2 years ago: It’s a big shift from the solitude of the page to a roomful of faces. I gave a talk at Pepperd … more →

Tags: Poland, Galicia Museum, Christopher Schwartz, pepperdine university, Glazer Institute for Jewish Studies, Traces of Memory: A Contemporary Look at the Jewish Pas, Rabbi Don Singer, Galicia Jewish Museum, Stary Dzików

Evidence — 1 comment

Louise Steinman wrote 2 years ago: Evidence.  Means ‘sign’ or ‘proof’. ‘Statements of witnesses.’ Last fall I heard a thought-provoking … more →

Tags: Poland, Radomsko, Casden Institute for the Study of Jewish Life in Americ, Daniel Mendelson, The Lost: Searching for Six of Six Million, Palace of Culture, Muzeum Teckniki Warsaw, Radomsk Yizkor, Fayga Konarska Wilhelm

A Gift

Louise Steinman wrote 2 years ago: My husband’s gift this holiday was an offer to read out loud to me the entire manuscript of … more →

Tags: Life and What about It, Lloyd Hamrol, The Crooked Mirror


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