Background
Moskowitz, Faye Stollman was born on July 31, 1930 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Daughter of Aaron and Sophie (Eisenberg) Stollman.
(From her first book, the highly acclaimed A Leak in the H...)
From her first book, the highly acclaimed A Leak in the Heart, the stories of Faye Moskowitz have observed a particular and mostly forgotten terrain of American life: the world of the second-generation Jew. Displaced and often confused, growing up in families still clinging to the traditions of the old country, these poignant tales feature protagonists still actually speaking Yiddish, mameh loshen, the mother tongue. We listen to them as would a child, sitting there quietly in the kitchen of a small Midwestern town overhearing a room full of women gossiping about their husbands, their work, the uncomfortable space they inhabit between a threatened culture and a modern world; between a generation that came from the old country speaking nothing but Yiddish and a new generation eager to be assimilated, desperate to "fit in," and seeing with brutal clarity the small lies, petty evasions, and daily justifications that make their trapped, often barren lives bearable. Moskowitz weaves her tales of interconnected families into a series of connected stories, of her parents, their extended families, their neighbors and landsleit, and finally of her own coming of age in America. The portraits and the people are not always admirable, certainly not Talmudic, but through the eye and the ears of this master, they all give us lessons in the sweetness and pain of this first generation to assimilate. Like her other books, this is, an achingly painful and funny collection about growing up female, Jewish, and smart.
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(These are twenty-four autobiographical story-essays, witt...)
These are twenty-four autobiographical story-essays, witty, vulnerable, and wise, about growing up part of a puzzled and unassimilated Orthodox Jewish family in a Michigan small-town in the 1930s and '40s and about the wider world of marriage, children, teaching and writing after that rich beginning.
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(These are twenty-four autobiographical story-essays, witt...)
These are twenty-four autobiographical story-essays, witty, vulnerable, and wise, about growing up part of a puzzled and unassimilated Orthodox Jewish family in a Michigan small-town in the 1930s and '40s and about the wider world of marriage, children, teaching and writing after that rich beginning.
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( "A book that will make you stand up and cheer."—The Det...)
"A book that will make you stand up and cheer."—The Detroit News "Bridges the gap between humor and despair, past and present, Jew and gentile, to reveal its author's simple humanity, deeply rooted in her unwavering love of family. . . . Touching and compelling."—The Washington Post The Feminist Press brings back into print a literary gem. And the Bridge Is Love is a timeless collection of life stories about growing up in a Jewish family in Detroit during the Depression and becoming a writer in Washington, DC. The essays range from one on a friend who is dying to a hilarious account of binge eating at a wedding. In between these two poles is a world both modern and old-fashioned, vivid, yet vanishing.
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(Faye Moskowitz's first collection of story-essays, A Leak...)
Faye Moskowitz's first collection of story-essays, A Leak in the Heart (Godine, 1985), was a marvellous exploration of growing up in a Jewish Orthodox family in small-town Michigan, and clearly established her gift for uncovering - and understanding - the constant pulls and liabilities of family relationships. Now, in this new and fiercely caring volume, she turns to other families, to couples young and old, to the conflicts that loyalty, caring, and loss encounter at every step. These are stories of immense compassion and dazzling perception, for she recognized all, and in the end makes us the gift of our very humanity; the sixteen-year-old whose dreams of romance aren't diminished by the stark actuality of sex; the housewife who turns to shoplifting to perk up her all-too-familiar routine; one woman's heartbreaking response to her mastectomy; or how fantasies of a nose job can be a life raft in an indifferent world. We have to laugh through our tears, so well told are these tales. A magical offering that affirms everyone's need for someone to say, "I love you," this collection is sure to find a permanent place in your heart.
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Moskowitz, Faye Stollman was born on July 31, 1930 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Daughter of Aaron and Sophie (Eisenberg) Stollman.
Bachelor with special honors, George Washington University, 1970; Doctor of Philosophy (abd), George Washington University, 1974; Master of Arts, George Washington University, 1979.
Director middle school, Edmund Burke School, Washington, 1974-1986; director creative writing, George Washington University, Washington, 1987-1998; associate professor, George Washington University, Washington, since 1992; chair department English, George Washington University, Washington, since 1998. President Jenny Moore Fund for Writers, Washington, since 1975. Member of advisory board Leeway Foundation, Philadelphia, since 1996.
(Faye Moskowitz's first collection of story-essays, A Leak...)
(These are twenty-four autobiographical story-essays, witt...)
(These are twenty-four autobiographical story-essays, witt...)
(These are twenty-four autobiographical story-essays, witt...)
(From her first book, the highly acclaimed A Leak in the H...)
( "A book that will make you stand up and cheer."—The Det...)
County vice chairman Democratic Party, Michigan, 1958-1960, delegate national convention, 1960.
Married Jack Moskowitz, August 29, 1948. Children: Shoshana Grove, Frank, Seth, Elizabeth Korns.