Category Archives: Conference on Jewish Story

Guest Post | Seminar on Jewish Story Report, Part Four by Sheila Lewis

Posted on June 18, 2014 by Barbara Krasner

An All-of-a Kind Seminar on Jewish Story In a four-part series, Sheila Lewis reports on her experiences at the recent Seminar on Jewish Story, sponsored by The Whole Megillah LLC, together with the Association of Jewish Libraries. The final panel … Continue reading →

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Guest Post | Seminar on Jewish Story Report, Part Three by Sheila Lewis

Posted on June 11, 2014 by Barbara Krasner

An All-of-a Kind Seminar on Jewish Story In a four-part series, Sheila Lewis reports on her experiences at the recent Seminar on Jewish Story, sponsored by The Whole Megillah LLC, together with the Association of Jewish Libraries. The memoir panelists … Continue reading →

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Guest Post | Seminar on Jewish Story Report, Part Two by Sheila Lewis

Posted on June 3, 2014 by Barbara Krasner

An All-of-a Kind Seminar on Jewish Story In a four-part series, Sheila Lewis reports on her experiences at the recent Seminar on Jewish Story, sponsored by The Whole Megillah LLC, together with the Association of Jewish Libraries. Writing a novel … Continue reading →

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Guest Post | Seminar on Jewish Story Report, Part One by Sheila Lewis

Posted on May 26, 2014 by Barbara Krasner

An All-of-a Kind Seminar on Jewish Story In a four-part series, Sheila Lewis reports on her experiences at the recent Seminar on Jewish Story, sponsored by The Whole Megillah LLC, together with the Association of Jewish Libraries. From the moment … Continue reading →

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Seminar on Jewish Story | April Halprin Wayland, Children’s Book Author

Posted on April 22, 2014 by Barbara Krasner

On May 18, award-winning children’s book author April Halprin Wayland joins the children’s book panel at the Seminar on Jewish Story, held at Temple Emanu-El, 10 E. 66th Street, in New York City. The Whole Megillah (TWM): What inspired you to … Continue reading →

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Guest Post by Nancy K. Miller | My Memoirs Made Me Jewish, or How Jewish Is Enough?

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Barbara Krasner

In the year 2000 I received a phone call from a real estate broker who informed me that I had inherited a small plot of land on the outskirts of Jerusalem from my paternal grandparents. The phone call led to … Continue reading →

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Guest Post | Seminar on Jewish Story Panelist, Poet/Memoirist Joy Ladin

Posted on March 9, 2014 by Barbara Krasner

My life was changed by a writers’ conference I attended in 1985. I was three years removed from concentrating in creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College. Writing poetry had been at the center of my life since junior high school, … Continue reading →

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Conference on Jewish Story | Tahneer Oksman, Memoir Panelist

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Barbara Krasner

On May 18 at the Conference on Jewish Story, Tahneer Oksman will participate on the Memoir panel. We thought it would be a good idea for you to know her and her work ahead of time. Tahneer Oksman is Assistant … Continue reading →

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Give Yourself the Gift of Writing | 2014 Writing Workshops & Retreats

Posted on February 25, 2014 by Barbara Krasner

Now that we’re nearly into the third month of 2014, are you off to a great start or are you barely out of the gate? Give yourself a boost by attending a writing workshop or retreat. Here are some events … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on Jewish Story | Guest Post by Erika Dreifus

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Barbara Krasner

The Whole Megillah is pleased to post this entry by Erika Dreifus, who joins the Fiction Panel at the May 18, 2014 Conference on Jewish Story in New York City. For more about the conference, click here>>> It’s a perennial … Continue reading →

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