----------------------- Message requiring your approval ---------------------- From: "Judith Rosenbaum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [ha-Safran]: New Guide
The Jewish Women�s Archive proudly presents In Our Own Voices: A Guide to Conducting Life History Interviews with American Jewish Women.
In Our Own Voices is a new step-by-step guide for general audiences interested in learning how to conduct interviews with the important Jewish women in their own lives. With a detailed how-to manual for every step of the interview process, the guide is formulated around ten overarching frameworks for understanding women�s life experiences. In each section, readers will find an introductory essay by a leading scholar, a series of key topics, exemplary stories from JWA�s oral history archives, and hundreds of sample questions intended to help them conduct sensitive and probing interviews about the experiences of American Jewish women.
In Our Own Voices is designed to help individuals or community groups capture and preserve the stories of their mothers and grandmothers, teachers and colleagues, community members and friends.
For more details, or to order, go to:<http://www.jwa.org/discover/oralhistory/guide.html>http://www.jwa.org/discover/oralhistory/guide.html or call (617) 383-6754. (Bulk order discounts available.)
What people are saying:
"In Our Own Voices is a remarkable tool in the service of a history that has gone mostly unrecorded. There is no time to mourn for the triumphs and losses, jokes and wisdom that have been lost. So hurry. Open this book and get to work. Let us not waste another moment."
-- Anita Diamant, author of The Red Tent
"If ever there was a document that spoke to the truth that every human being, male and female, is created in the image of God, this is it. The sample questionnaires, the jewel-like essays by learned scholars, the delicious vignettes, the evocative Joan Roth photos, the practical tips for interviewing � each piece of In Our Own Voices joyously celebrates the depth and variety of women�s lives. More than all our exhortations to fill in the white spaces, this guide will yield results. It will spawn a thousand new stories of women�s lives. I must go and interview my mother right away!"
-- Blu Greenberg, author of On Women and Judaism: A View From Tradition
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