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America’s Pioneer Jewish Congregations (Including One in Tucson)

January 31, 2018 by Edie Jarolim 1 Comment

No question, social media can be a time sink, but sometimes you meet really interesting people on line. Today's guest poster, Julian Preisler, falls into this category. Because the subjects he's writing about are of great interest to me -- as I think they will be to you -- I'm turning my blog over to him.  Also, I was one of the people he enlisted to take pictures for his book.

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Grief, Food, & Nudity: A Story About My Mother & My New Book

November 16, 2016 by Edie Jarolim Leave a Comment

Not long after my father died, I went to Martinique with my mother. I remember three things about that trip.  My mother's grief. The profiteroles. And the topless beach. Grief, food, and nudity My mother was in a raw stage of mourning, subject to fits of literal wailing. But no one in my family was ever too upset to eat, especially dessert. And Martinique is a French island,

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Of Chutzpah, Kickstarter, and Keeping a Low Profile

June 14, 2015 by Edie Jarolim 12 Comments

When I was growing up, my mother always implied that my sister and I should keep a low profile. We were supposed to excel in school, sure, but not to stand out because otherwise "they" would find us, even though we grew up in America, even though "they" found everyone they wanted to find in Vienna -- i.e., anyone who was even part Jewish, no matter how low a profile the

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Freud’s Butcher, the Poem

August 13, 2012 by Edie Jarolim 10 Comments

As I mentioned in my introduction to the Genealogy section, I've trotted out the fact that I am the grand-niece of Sigmund Freud's butcher for a long time, especially to people I thought might be interested. Two of those people were Charles Bernstein  and Susan Bee, who wrote and illustrated a poem about the topic that appears in a small volume called The Nude Formalism

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Genealogy: I See Live People

August 9, 2012 by Edie Jarolim 25 Comments

I'm new to genealogy. I'd always thought it was a discipline that dealt strictly with dead people, with the goal of bringing them back to life. I knew that my particular quest, exploring the lives of the members of a Jewish family in pre-World World II Vienna, would be filled with emotional land mines: the unnatural (to put it mildly) disruption of those lives that would be

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