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Freud’s Butcher Contributor Wins Major Literary Award

May 30, 2013 by Edie Jarolim 2 Comments

I'm kvelling. My friend Lydia Davis, who is a FOFB (Friend of Freud's Butcher), just won the Man Booker International Prize. We're not talking the regular Man Booker Prize, which is prestigious enough, but a lifetime achievement award for fiction, presented once every two years. The four previous winners were Ismail Kadaré (2005), Chinua Achebe (2007), Alice Munro (2009),

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Belly Dancing, Knitting, Pastry & Psychology: A Virtual Convergence

December 19, 2012 by Edie Jarolim 7 Comments

A few months ago, I made the virtual acquaintance of a very accomplished woman with a Viennese Jewish parent. She, in turn, had recently become virtually reacquainted with an old friend/cousin with a Viennese Jewish parent. Each of the two friends/cousins has a Viennese non-Jewish parent too. It's a bit confusing. Bear with me here. How I Know the Very Accomplished Woman

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What’s in a Name? Kornmehl

September 28, 2012 by Edie Jarolim 9 Comments

As I mentioned last week, one of the ten genealogical questions I want answers to -- #2 to be precise -- was researched by a good friend, who became very interested in the history of my mother's family, the Kornmehls. The result was this wonderfully rich guest post. Blame  -- or thank  --  me for the illustrations. I came across this classic ad as I was searching for  a picture

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