You Were Strangers: Writing from our Jewish Roots
You Were Strangers: Writing from our Jewish Roots
If Shakespeare is right and the past is prologue, then our Jewish ancestors continue to write their stories -- through us -- today. Start the new year by delving into the lives of your parents, grandparents, or great-grandparents who came to this country as strangers and helped shape the contemporary Jewish experience. What do their lives reveal about you, the present, and the future?
In this class, we’ll use prompts, free writes, and illuminating class discussion to uncover and explore the values, traditions, and events that have helped determine the course of your life. You’ll leave the class with new perspectives and written reflections to enhance the novel, memoir or essays you’ll write in 2023.
Sunday, January 21 & Sunday, January 28, 2024
10:00 AM to 12:30 PM EST on Zoom
Who should take this class?
Fiction, memoir or essay writers with an interest in Jewish heritage.
Testimonials
Barbara has given me a skill set and a fresh perspective on how to approach writing and editing. She has an uncanny ability to spot the direction a character needs to take or how to make a beat hit, and her character advice is second to none. Her classes have given me the courage to work past failed drafts, and keep pushing that pen until I have something better on the page.
The class was surprising, so fun and still so engaging. This instructor makes any class room, physical or virtual, feel so inspiring!
Barbara Josselsohn is a wonderful instructor and very pleasant and generous with her time and knowledge. She gets at the pulse of the piece and understands, as a writer, how to be effective.
I'm really grateful for the constructive criticism and feedback as well as the lessons on craft. This class cured my writer's block and I will take more. THANK you!
Loved Barbara and her class teaching and management style!
Barbara is the best! Nothing to improve!
Barbara’s Intermediate Novel Writing course this semester was by far the best.
[Barbara has been] a mentor, a role model, and a great teacher to me…[she has] given me a skill set and a fresh perspective on how to approach writing and editing.
[Barbara has] an uncanny ability to spot the direction a character needs to take or how to make a beat hit, and [her] character advice is second to none.
[The class has] given me the courage to work past failed drafts, and keep pushing that pen until I have something better on the page.
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