Life-Tumbled Shards

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Life-Tumbled Shards is a medical memoir dealing with illness grief and loss. It touches on many other subjects: life in Jerusalem life in the Old City basic Jewish mourning customs Jewish observance the Holocaust as it affected the author's family as well as her early years in Israel. The author herself an artist felt the need to rebuild herself. By instinct alone she took hesitant steps. Through parallel processes in paint and in words she searched to find another facet of herself.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Topics</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> woven into the manuscript:</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> • Family relations</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>• Mother-daughter relations</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>• Family medical crisis</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>• Adjusting from a normative American suburban upbringing to life in Israel and raising children in a culture that was foreign to the mother </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>• Jewish feminism</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>• Modern-orthodox Jewish woman</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>• Challenges to a creator/mother as she seeks to rehabilitate herself after a great loss</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>• 20</span><sup style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>th-</sup><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>century Jewish history</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>• Holocaust remembrances</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>• Second Generation memories and questions Israeli history</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>• Jewish-Muslim co-existence in the Jerusalem's Old City</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>• Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem life</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>• addressing Israel and modern Zionism</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>• seeing a private loss as a reflection of the most universal aspect of humanity</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>• facing death</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>• explaining common Jewish practices and Israeli culture to general audiences</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>• Arab-Israeli tension and </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>• The centrality of Jerusalem in Judaism.</span></p><p></p><p></p>