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A Jewish Journey is the memoir of Sam Ron, born Shmuel Rakowski in
Kazimierza-Wielka, a tiny village, or shtetl, near Krakow, Poland,
in 1924, which was overtaken by the Nazis in 1939. As opposed to
other Holocaust memoirs, the book takes the form of a Q&A with
students who have met him to hear his story, underscoring the
importance of Holocaust education not only for Sam himself, but
also for all those who will never have the opportunity to meet a
survivor. It is written in a novelistic form, in order to touch the
heart as well as the mind. Ron is one of the oldest living
survivors of the Nazi death camps. After the war, he worked for
Bericha, an organization that resettled in the Land of Israel
orphaned refugees from Europe. He also served in the Haganah
fighting force and was what is known as a chalutz, an early settler
before the founding of the State of Israel, where he helped found a
settlement and served as a soldier in the Haganah, the precursor to
the Israel Defense Forces. He subsequently immigrated to the U.S.
and was a successful land developer in Akron and Canton, Ohio. Now
Sam lives in Boca Raton, Florida, and continues what he has done
for over half a century: educating young and old about his
experiences of the momentous historical events in which he has
taken part. Along with his acclaimed work as a volunteer educator,
until 2019, Sam Ron was a regular volunteer for the March of the
Living, a longstanding educational program that takes students and
adults to Poland and Israel to visit many of the same places where
he survived-and thrived.
She's an iconic Jewish storyteller. She's a widely acclaimed
professor and folklorist. She's the one and only Peninnah Schram,
and Peninnah's World: A Jewish Life in Stories is her authorized
biography, told through individual stories. What is a biography
told through stories? Because Schram's art form is storytelling,
Peninnah's World dramatizes in vivid scenes her extraordinary
trajectory from the New London, Connecticut-born child of immigrant
parents steeped in Jewish tradition in the 1930s and '40s to
award-winning, New York-based performer, writer and scholar. The
book features landmarks such as the old Mohican Hotel in New London
and Stern College for Women in Manhattan. Along the way, Schram
enjoys close encounters with such luminaries as Noble Laureates
Elie Wiesel and Isaac Bashevis Singer, as well as famed
Yiddish-theater actress Molly Picon, actor Jeff Goldblum,
singer/ethnomusicologist Ruth Rubin and others. Written by
storytelling studies professor and performer Caren Schnur Neile,
the stories are in a form tailor-made to enjoy and share aloud. At
the same time, they serve as models for all those interested in
creating their own life and family stories, whatever their
background, whether on the page, on the stage, or among neighbors
and loved ones. Welcome to Peninnah's World. Prepare to explore
your own.
This study examines U.S cultural values through the lens of family
storytelling. Through an examination of 53 family stories, it
addresses: the role of family storytelling in the transmission of
cultural values; the existence of shared American cultural
archetypes, motifs and themes; the existence of shared national
values and the role of storytelling in promoting peace. As dynamic
folklore, family stories are ideal instruments with which to tease
out deep-rooted values. Stories are rich repositories of cultural
schemas, the bricolage of information and attitudes that form our
identities. They are also repleted with symbols that reflect
shared, unconscious understandings. Unlike many other cultural
products, moreover, they are relatively unaffected by government or
corporate agendas. More unlike, many other types of folk narrative,
they typically resonate with Americans. Finally, storytelling both
reflects and comprises the social drama characterized by
anthropologist Victor Turner, which leads to communitas, the spirit
of community. The study attempts the promotion of communitas by
demonstrating how humankind makes connections through the shared
elements found in our stories.
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