The Whole Megillah- #52snapshots 2022 | Week 25 — The BodyI’m now a week behind in writing these memoir vignettes. So while this is technically Week 26, I’m offering up Week 25 here today. The prompt calls for writing about the body and I chose to write about my mother’s … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Mid-Week Field Notes–June 29, 2022Some very quick things: I have a Zoom session with my agent later this week to discuss my writing career. I feel like I’m standing at the crossroads, deciding which way to go. In the Kenyon Review online poetry workshop, … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Mid-Week Field Notes–June 22, 2022Some very quick things: The Kenyon Review poetry workshop doesn’t seem to accommodate what I need to do for my novel in verse, but it is helping with standalone poems and is introducing me to some very awesome poets. I’m … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- #52snapshots 2022 | Week 24 — Beggars’ NightThe Week 24 prompt is called Beggars’ Night–the night before Halloween that we called Mischief Night. The prompt calls for writing to describe refusal. I thought about the time my parents stashed me at my father’s father’s house a block … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Mid-Week Field Notes–June 15, 2022Some very quick things: One of the things I learned at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum faculty seminar in the last two weeks was how to read and analyze photographs. I used the methodology this past Sunday with my Writing … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Author’s Notebook | I Will Protect You by Eva Mozes Kor with Danica DavidsonKor, Eva Mozes, with Danica Davidson. I Will Protect You: A True Story of Twins Who Survived Auschwitz. New York and Boston: Little Brown, 2022. 226 pp. $17.99 The Whole Megillah (TWM): How did this project come about? Danica Davidson … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- #52snapshots 2022 | Week 23 — The OutsiderThis week’s prompt requires writing about someone who didn’t fit in. Frankly, that could be anyone and everyone. I chose to write about a high school classmate who definitely marched to the beat of her own drummer. She was not … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Mid-Week Field Notes–June 8, 2022Some very quick things: One of my short stories, one I felt pretty good about, received three rejections in the last week. I’ve lobbed it into a critique service, although in retrospect, I should probably have “critiqued” it myself. I … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Mid-Week Field Notes–June 1, 2022Some very quick things: My essay about my grandfather and his matchmaker postcard keeps getting rejected. I’m going to take it next to my AWA memoir group over the next couple of months and get some feedback. Still working on … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- #52snapshots 2022 | Week 21 — Who Are Your PeopleFor Week 21, the assignment is to describe a group you belong to. I chose to write about the Jewish community of Kearny and North Arlington. Lately I’ve been thinking about how the synagogue proved to be the center of … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- #52snapshots 2022 | Week 25 — The Body
Monthly Archives: May 2010
Ideas Can Come from Anywhere–Even Jane Yolen
The first-ever Highlights Foundation workshop for writers of Jewish-themed children’s books took place at the founders’ home in Boyds Mills, PA from May 23-25. Throughout the following weeks, I’ll be sharing some highlights (no pun intended) of what the speakers … Continue reading
Tagged Andrea Brown Literary Agency, Calkins Creek Books, Carolyn Yoder, Debra Hess, Devorah Leah Rosenfeld, East/West Agency, Francoise Bui, Hachai Publishing, Highlights for Children, Highlights Foundation, Highlights Foundation Worksop, Jane Yolen, Jewish Book World, Lisa Silverman, Mary Kole, Penninah Schram, Rubin Pfeffer
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Author’s Notebook | Rich Michelson
Each month, The Whole Megillah features an interview with an author of Jewish-themed children’s books. For May 2010’s Author’s Notebook debut, we reached out to award-winning author Rich Michelson of Massachusetts. The Whole Megillah (TWM): When did you first realize … Continue reading
Jewish American Heritage Month and the Sydney Taylor Book Award
On May 7, Kathe Pinchuck, Outgoing Chair of the Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee posted in the AJL Blog, People of the Books, a list of Sydney Taylor Book Awards winners, celebrating Jewish American Heritage Month. I urge you to … Continue reading
Museum of Jewish Heritage | A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
It seemed fitting that I would head into New York City today to research the St. Louis on the 71st anniversary of its sailing. After spending a couple of hours at the Joint Distribution Committee archives midtown, I traveled to … Continue reading
Book Review: Emma’s Poem–The Voice of the Statue of Liberty
Emma’s Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty (Houghton Mifflin, 2010) Written by Linda Glaser, illustrated by Claire A. Nivola I must confess: I’ve been researching Emma Lazarus for about ten years. Since the Statue of Liberty’s 100th anniversary … Continue reading
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Tagged Emma Lazarus, New Colossus, nineteenth century Jewish writers, Statue of Liberty
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This Month in Jewish History—The Tragic Voyage of the St. Louis
On May 13, 1939, more than 900 German Jewish refugees boarded the luxury liner MS St. Louis in Hamburg. They were filled with hope of a new homeland, rejected by Germany. Since Kristallnacht the previous November, and even before that, … Continue reading
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Welcome to The Whole Megillah! This can be your resource for writing and marketing Jewish-themed content for young readers. Upcoming Highlights Foundation Workshop–Writing Jewish-themed Children’s Books From May 23-25, a group of writers will gather at the home of the … Continue reading
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