THE JOY UNGERLEIDER JEWISH BOOK MONTH PROGRAM PRESENTS
MISHKAN SHIRAH: A SACRED SPACE OF POETRY
MISHKAN SHIRAH: A SACRED SPACE OF POETRY
Friday Evening, November 7, 2008
featuring
Temple Israel members and poets
Edie Aronowitz Mueller and Ellen Steinbaum
Qabbalat Shabbat Service 5:45pm-6:30pm
Joy Ungerleider Program 6:30pm-7:30pm
Festive Oneg of light dinner food, book signings
and meet the authors 7:30pm-9:00pm
RSVP (not necessary but helpful!) to Ann Abrams, Librarian aabrams@tisrael.org by November 3.
Edie and Ellen will read from their recently published books of poetry, The Fat Girl and Other Poems, and Container Gardening, respectively.
EDIE
Edie Aronowitz Mueller traveled widely, living in Manhattan, San Francisco, Florida, and Israel, working as a secretary, photographer, potato/orange/peach-picker, dishwasher, and chicken egg collector. In Boston, she met Guntram. They were married, bought a house, had a child, Ariadne—in other words: created home. She finished college, and earned a Master's Degree in Creative Writing. In 1979, Edie and Guntram joined Temple Israel to help support its efforts in resettling Vietnamese fleeing their country.
Since then, Edie has studied Judaism, and taught in the Hebrew school and Adult B’nai Mitzvah Program. With the start of the Women's Kallot, she turned her poetic skills toward writing liturgy. Her Havdalah service is included in our new prayerbook, Mishkan T’filah. Widely published and translated, her poems have won numerous awards. The Fat Girl and Other Poems, her first book, was published earlier this year.
ELLEN
Ellen Steinbaum, a poet and journalist, has been a popular
featured reader both nationally and throughout the Boston area.
She writes a literary column for The Boston Globe and is the author of the poetry collection Afterwords and of a one-person play, CenterPiece, which she has performed. Her new book, Container Gardening, speaks of what is perishable and what endures and what makes us who we are. Her work also appears in Mishkan T'filah.
The poet Lloyd Schwartz says, “In Container Gardening the
losses we suffer—private, public, political, natural—are universal. But she knows, with wry certainty, that ‘what is broken can / (never) / be repaired / the pieces can / (not) / be put back.’ Definitely one or the other. ...The contained garden of her poems becomes a conscious strategy to deal with all those
— all our —losses.”
To read samples of Edie and Ellen's poems, please visit:
http://www.tisrael.org/study/library.php?page=17935
EDIE
Edie Aronowitz Mueller traveled widely, living in Manhattan, San Francisco, Florida, and Israel, working as a secretary, photographer, potato/orange/peach-picker, dishwasher, and chicken egg collector. In Boston, she met Guntram. They were married, bought a house, had a child, Ariadne—in other words: created home. She finished college, and earned a Master's Degree in Creative Writing. In 1979, Edie and Guntram joined Temple Israel to help support its efforts in resettling Vietnamese fleeing their country.
Since then, Edie has studied Judaism, and taught in the Hebrew school and Adult B’nai Mitzvah Program. With the start of the Women's Kallot, she turned her poetic skills toward writing liturgy. Her Havdalah service is included in our new prayerbook, Mishkan T’filah. Widely published and translated, her poems have won numerous awards. The Fat Girl and Other Poems, her first book, was published earlier this year.
ELLEN
Ellen Steinbaum, a poet and journalist, has been a popular
featured reader both nationally and throughout the Boston area.
She writes a literary column for The Boston Globe and is the author of the poetry collection Afterwords and of a one-person play, CenterPiece, which she has performed. Her new book, Container Gardening, speaks of what is perishable and what endures and what makes us who we are. Her work also appears in Mishkan T'filah.
The poet Lloyd Schwartz says, “In Container Gardening the
losses we suffer—private, public, political, natural—are universal. But she knows, with wry certainty, that ‘what is broken can / (never) / be repaired / the pieces can / (not) / be put back.’ Definitely one or the other. ...The contained garden of her poems becomes a conscious strategy to deal with all those
— all our —losses.”
To read samples of Edie and Ellen's poems, please visit:
http://www.tisrael.org/study/library.php?page=17935
To buy their books: we are selling their books at the temple, in advance of the Joy Ungerleider Program. Or, support your local independant book store:
To learn about the history of the Ungerleider Program, please read here:
JOY UNGERLEIDER JEWISH BOOK MONTH PROGRAM:
A HISTORY
Jewish Book Month is an annual event on the American Jewish calendar dedicated to the celebration of Jewish books. It is observed during the month preceding Hanukkah. Here at Temple Israel, this is a time when we showcase our library, the Dr. Arnold L. Segel Library Center, and the authors in our community. For more information, please visit http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/
Jewish Book Month is an annual event on the American Jewish calendar dedicated to the celebration of Jewish books. It is observed during the month preceding Hanukkah. Here at Temple Israel, this is a time when we showcase our library, the Dr. Arnold L. Segel Library Center, and the authors in our community. For more information, please visit http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/
Joy Ungerleider was a museum curator, philanthropist, visionary, and much, much more. She served as curator (1967-69) and director (1972-1980) of the Jewish Museum in New York, bringing important religious and secular exhibits to the museum and raising substantial funds from philanthropists to make the museum more successful than it had been in decades. She established the Dorot Foundation in 1972 and, through the foundation, she contributed to Jewish Studies in the United States and in Israel. The broad scope of her philanthropy - from giving aid to the Dead Sea Scroll project to programs that allowed Arabs and Israeli Jews to study together - left her permanent mark on Jewish education throughout the world. After she died in 1994, the Joy Ungerleider Jewish Book Month Program was established by her family as an endowed lecture series, under the supervision of the Library Committee. The purpose of this series is to bring authors and artists to our congregation in order to help us create more connectedness and community through learning and literature.
We are pleased to be celebrating the fourteenth year of The Joy Ungerleider Jewish Book Month Program!
FOURTEEN YEARS OF SPEAKERS
1995. Neil Asher Silbermann, author of The Hidden Scrolls: Christianity, Judaism and The War for the Dead Sea Scrolls.
1996. Deborah Lipstadt, author of Denying the Holocaust.
1997. Melissa Fay Greene, author of The Temple Bombing.
1998. Bezalel Narkiss, founder and professor of the Center for Jewish Art at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, spoke about The Lost Sephardi Ark.
1999. Everett Fox, author of a new translation of The Five Books of Moses.
2000. Amy Dockser Marcus, author of The View from Nebo: how archaeology is rewriting the Bible and reshaping the Middle East.
2001. Mark Novak, Renee Brachfeld. This ain’t your bubbe’s Yiddish theatre.
Cantor and storyteller presented musical storytelling program.
2002. Craig Taubman. Singer/songwriter performed as part of a jointly-sponsored program with our annual Karol Music Service.
2003. Emily Sper, children’s book author and illustrator, presented a program for children in our Education Program about how she creates books.
2004. Twenty one authors, all Temple Israel members, discussed how their Jewish identity affects their writing, as part of the temple’s Sesquicentennial celebration.
2005. Lisa Fagin Davis, Meaghan Dwyer, Susan L. Porter, authors of Becoming
American Jews: Temple Israel of Boston, 1854-2004 (forthcoming) spoke about
the process of writing this book.
2006. Ken Gordon, Editor of http://www.jbooks.com/ spoke about Jewish Literacy and the Internet.
2007. Jerome Groopman, M.D., author of How Doctors Think.
2008. Edie Aronowitz Mueller and Ellen Steinbaum, temple members and poets, Authors of The Fat Girl and other poems, and Container Gardening,
respectively.
For more information about the Ungerleider Program or the library, please contact Ann Abrams, Librarian, aabrams@tisrael.org .
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