Budapest Diary: In Search of the Motherbook

Susan Rubin Suleiman

1996

Few children know the stories of their parents. During my childhood, I knew only that mine were an impossible match—which did not prevent my mother from spending day and night at my father’s bedside after his first heart attack, or from cutting off her beautiful hair as a propitiatory offering to the Orthodox God for allowing him to get well. Her…

Please login or register for free access to Posen Library
Register
Already have an account?
Engage with this Source

Creator Bio

Susan Rubin Suleiman

b. 1939

Budapest-born Susan Rubin Suleiman, a literary and cultural critic, translator, and editor, is a professor of French civilization and comparative literature at Harvard University. Her writing explores twentieth-century French fiction, feminism, and the Holocaust. Suleiman has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship, and several NEH Fellowships.

You may also like

The Road to Ein Harod

Not a word about Ein Harod on the official radio. All the official communiqués were broadcast. Directives to obey. Directives to obey directives. Directives prohibiting assemblies. Directives not to…
View Source

Epilogue

After the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am incensed at you and your two friends, for you have not spoken the truth about Me as did My servant Job. Now…
View Source
Oil painting of man in beard, furried hat, and prayer shawl looking forward and holding a Torah scroll.
Tooltip info icon

Of the High Priest’s Tribe

An important Jewish genre painter, Kaufman drew inspiration for his romantic depictions of traditional Jewish life from trips to Moravia and Upper Hungary, Galicia and Bukovina and areas of Russian…
View Source