Creator Bio
E. M. Broner
1930–2011
E. M. Broner (Esther Broner) was born in Detroit, where she was professor of English and creative writing at Wayne State University. Broner wrote plays, novels, essays, radio scripts, and short stories, infusing her writing with a strong feminist and Jewish point of view. Her works appear in popular periodicals, literary journals, and anthologies, and she received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the 1983 Wonder Woman Award.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Ghost Stories
Superimposed upon my face in the mirror is my mother’s. I am about to comb my hair, but here she is, brushing hers, her thick, wavy, white hair.
We quarrelled about hair.
“D…
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Dayenu
“But what is dayenu? What is sufficient for us?” asks the Wise Daughter.
Dayenu
If Eve had been created in the image of God
and not as helper to Adam,
it would have sufficed.
Dayenu.
אִילוּ נוֹצְרַה…