This page is designed to demonstrate the many ways that the reputation, teaching, words and especially the singing of Lotte Lehmann has lived on. Read what J.B. Steane and others write of Lehmann’s life after death. Below, there is the excellent article on the Lehmann Centennial at the Vienna Opera, by Judith Sutcliffe.
To answer how and why Lotte Lehmann is so well known, now, after having sung her last recitals over 60 years ago, first, and most obviously, the answer is that Lehmann possessed unique communicative skills that were preserved in recordings that have continually been reissued. Her voice recorded well. Here is a live radio broadcast of Erlkönig. Translation.
(The text/translation is at the bottom of the page.) Other highly regarded sopranos of Lotte Lehmann’s era, such as Frida Leider, Maria Jeritza, Elisabeth Rethberg, didn’t have their success guaranteed in the future by their recordings. Judge for yourself on the Comparisons Page. Second, (and unlike the three sopranos mentioned above) Lehmann extended her career: after opera, she devoted herself successfully to Lieder.
After retiring from Lieder singing, her teaching sent out her disciples, who not only continued her enthusiasm and dedication to opera and Lieder, but also added longevity to her name: “Ms. X, a pupil of Lotte Lehmann, will sing a recital tomorrow evening at…” I have attempted to list “all” of Lehmann’s students (a daunting task). This same longevity continues from her students who themselves became teachers, either instead of, or after their singing careers. These dedicated teachers can be (or have been) found throughout the US, Europe and Japan and include Karan Armstrong, Marcele Reale, Leslie Guinn, Katsuumi Niwa, Carol Neblett,
Mildred Miller, Benita Valente, and Marilyn Horne among many others. Their students continue the Lotte Lehmann tradition and name; for example, it is often noted in CD booklets that Thomas Hampson’s first teacher, Sr. Marietta Coyle, was a Lehmann pupil.
Another advantage that Lehmann enjoyed was the support of recording company executives who appreciated both the recording artist Lotte Lehmann as well as the person. There was a special, personal relationship between Mme. Lehmann and John Coveney at Angel records. His personal influence can be seen in the 2 LP set that followed Lotte Lehmann’s death.
Other executives who knew Lehmann personally and saw commercial potential in re-releasing her recordings included John Pfeiffer (1920 – 1995) executive producer at RCA Red Seal, Keith Hardwick (d. 2002) chief sound engineer for EMI, and Jürgen E. Schmidt, who has worked since 1959 as director of arts and repertoire at Preiser Records. It was his idea and initiative to interview Lehmann for EMIs “Golden Voice” LP in the early 1960s. This remains the unique example of a Lehmann interview appearing on an LP along with aria recordings.
The steady stream of LPs and then, CD re-releases (and sometimes first releases) is well documented. YouTube now offers many Lotte Lehmann recordings. Lehmann recordings also appear in various “anthologies” both of opera and Lieder singers.
Lehmann’s association with the greatest names of 20th Century classical music, whether Toscanini, Bruno Walter, Richard Strauss, Korngold, or Klemperer, means that when books or articles are written on such personalities, Lehmann’s name is often mentioned.
Because he interviewed her twice, there’s a whole chapter on her in Studs Terkel’s 2004 book called “And They All Sang.” (You can listen to his interviews with Lehmann.) Prominent sections of J.B. Steane’s “Singers of the Century”, and “The Grand Tradition” were dedicated to Lehmann’s importance in the world of classical vocal music. Nigel Douglas includes a Lehmann chapter in his “Legendary Voices.” (You can read excerpts from their books)
In the 2002 “Story of the Trapp Family Singers” Maria August Trapp includes several mentions of Lehmann, who encouraged her family to “go professional.”
Unique among classical singers, Lehmann wrote many books, and she is often quoted from them in other publications, articles and reviews. Her book More than Singing has remained in print, now as a paperback from Dover, further increasing her name recognition. Her other books have been reprinted by Greenwood and Da Capo and besides allowing readers access to her thoughts, critics use her writing in their reviews and liner notes.
Lehmann has also fared well in the number biographies written about her. The German author Berndt Wessling knew Lehmann personally and wrote two books (filled with errors!) on her: Lotte Lehmann…mehr al seine Sängerin (Lotte Lehmann…more than a Singer) 1969 (while Lehmann was alive and with her input), and Lotte Lehmann…Sie sang daß es Sterne Rührte (Lotte Lehmann…She sang and the stars were moved) 1995. Though the British author Alan Jefferson wasn’t acquainted personally with her, he wrote a Lehmann biography Lotte Lehmann, a Centennial Biography 1988 that was translated into German 1991. Beaumont Glass worked with Lehmann and wrote Lotte Lehmann, A Life in Opera & Song 1988. Most recently, Canadian historian Dr. Michael Kater wrote a Lehmann biography, Never Sang for Hitler…The Life and Times of Lotte Lehmann 2008 placing her in the tumultuous history through which she lived.
The discographies that were included in the Jefferson and Glass biographies also merit attention. I compiled the discography for Glass and am the first to admit to being an amateur discographer. However, I was able to develop many original source documents to support dates as well as matrix and catalog numbers. Floris Juynboll provided really excellent work for the Jefferson biography, which he updated for the German edition.
Lehmann taught master classes in the US, Canada, England and Europe bringing her teaching talents and inspiration into the lives of many young singers (and future teachers) and further broadened the scope and longevity of her fame. But it was her teaching at the Music Academy of the West and later at the University of California, Santa Barbara that sealed her name, literally in stone. There are auditoriums at both institutions that bear her name. The Music Academy generously mentions Lehmann’s importance in its origins and UCSB supports the Lehmann Archive that she instigated and helped sponsor the Lehmann Centennial celebration in 1988. The Lehmann Archive at UCSB is part of the Special Collections of the Davidson Library, which occasionally develops special Lehmann exhibits.
The Lotte Lehmann Centennial Symposium took place from May 28 – 30, 1988 and was sponsored specifically by the Library of the University of California at Santa Barbara. It included recollections by such famous artists and commentators as Maurice Abravanel, Gwendolyn Koldofsky, Edward Downes, Dr. Richard Exner and Alan Rich. Lehmann student Carol Neblett performed a recital and Lehmann’s memorabilia and own paintings were on display. Her former students held a panel discussion and both Beaumont Glass and I made presentations.
At different points in the story of Lehmann’s influence after her death, a single person became pivotal. Dan Jacobson, now Professor of Music at Western Michigan University, was hired by the UCSB Library in the Spring of 1987 as the Coordinator of the Lehmann Centennial, and as a Research Assistant to help Dr. Frances Holden assess and catalog Mme. Lehmann’s materials that were still housed in her home, Orplid, in preparation for their ultimate placement in the Lehmann Archives at UCSB. He worked in both capacities until the Winter of 1989.
Jacobson edited the Lotte Lehmann Centennial Newsletter (8 issues, 1987 – 88) and, as a result of the centennial published “Lotte Lehmann on Der Rosenkavalier” in The Opera Quarterly, Summer 1991, which included an edited transcription of a lecture Mme. Lehmann gave, highlighted by photographs of color illustrations of Rosenkavalier scenes painted by Lehmann (intended to be transferred to a series of tiles). These were the first color inserts in The Opera Quarterly.
Another article he worked on was Lotte Lehmann on Becoming an Interpretive Singer, NATS Journal (March 1991).
During his time in Santa Barbara Jacobson discovered a set of twenty-three 16″ phonograph discs in the Lehman Archives that were original electrical transcriptions of a series of radio recital programs performed by Lehmann in 1941 for CBS. William Moran (founder of the Stanford University Sound Archives) helped transfer the recordings to reel-to-reel tape edited by the Sound Recording Studio at UCSB. Jacobson oversaw the production of those tapes into the 3 – disc LP recording set released in 1988 by the UCSB Library and Columbia Masterworks entitled “The Lotte Lehmann Centennial Album.” This set included 44 previously-unreleased recordings of Lieder sung by Lehmann with her own charming personal spoken introductions. Brahms Lullaby Translation
In 1997, the recordings were re-released internationally by Eklipse Records as a 2 – CD set entitled “Lotte Lehmann’s Complete 1941 Radio Recital Cycle.”
During this same time Jacobson designed and produced “Lehmann’s Sung, Spoken, Painted and Written Interpretations of Schubert’s Die Winterreise,” (a 75 – minute sound/slide presentation). This featured slides of Mme. Lehmann’s paintings of the Winterreise cycle shown during an audio performance of her singing the cycle, and accompanied by program notes on those songs from her own writings. [You can get some idea of the presentation on this site's Winterreise.]
Dr. Jacobson also initiated a national search and recovered a “lost” film produced by National Educational Television documenting Mme. Lehmann’s master classes at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara in July 1961. This film was professionally transferred to VHS in December 1987 and is available at the Lehmann Archives. VAI released a portion of the master classes on VHS and in 2005 published the classes complete on DVD. They were able to include a recently discovered CBC video interview from 1963 with Lehmann.
Dr. Jacobson was also the Executive Producer of the Remembering Lotte Lehmann video series featuring interviews with Maurice Abravanel, Gwendolyn Koldofsky and Frances Holden. These VHS tapes are also in the Lehmann Archives at UCSB.
The Vienna Opera also celebrated the Lehmann centennial. Here is Judith Sutcliffe’s report:
“In the summer of 1987 I heard that there was to be a special performance of Der Rosenkavalier at the Vienna Opera on Lotte Lehmann’s 100th birthday, February 27, 1988, followed by a lecture the next day by Marcel Prawy, of the Opera. I decided to go. Eric Hvølboll, a Santa Barbara lawyer, volunteered to accompany me. His mother, Elizabeth Hvølboll, is a local singer who studied at the Music Academy during Lehmann times. [actually taking part in a Lehmann master class]
In Vienna we contacted Hertha Schuch, one of Lehmann’s friends and admirers from the Golden Days before the war. The three of us sat in box seats for the Rosenkavalier performance, Eric and I much awed at the whole spectacle. During intermission we admired and photographed the extensive display of Lehmann photographs, programs, paintings and memorabilia that Marcel Prawy had assembled for this Lehmann weekend.
The opera was opulently performed. Hertha remarked afterward, however, with a sigh, ‘Lotte wasn’t there.’ Those whose memories hold her indelible image are rarely satisfied with today’s substitutes.
But Lotte was there the next day, and I was mightily surprised and overwhelmed. There was to be a lecture by Prawy. Somehow, I expected a small academic room somewhere in the opera building, and a lot of elderly people and some empty seats, it having been 50 years since Lehmann was on that stage…With that small expectation, I walked into the Vienna Opera itself, to box seats arranged by Hertha, and we looked out and up at a full house, thronged with people, 2,000 or more, all ages. There was a lively bustling of voices across the hall, I thought I spotted Grace Bumbry in one of the box seats.
Marcel Prawy came on stage at 2 p.m. and lectured–talked extemporaneously, I should say, with humor and vivacity–about Lehmann for two and a half hours. His comments were interspersed with tape recordings of Lehmann’s voice. I don’t know much about sound systems and hall acoustics, but I was thoroughly shaken by the resonance of her voice as it soared, clear and vibrant, filling that opera house with its magnificence. Tears, welled up in my eyes, and I could hear sniffles in the handkerchiefs across the house every time her voice rang out.
During his lecture, Prawy invited several colleagues to talk. He asked Egon Seefehlner, a past director of the Vienna Opera, to describe the indescribable, Lehmann’s voice. Seefehlner said simply that it was the only one that could make him weep.
We who are left with the legacy of her records, tend to listen to them in small living rooms, being careful not to disturb the neighbors with too much volume. There was a dimensional difference to hearing her recorded voice in the Vienna Opera, and I can only wonder at what the added dimension of her living fiber did to those who were born early enough, on the right side of the Atlantic, to hear. But I understood why all those people were there, weeping.
Seefehlner, if my understanding of German was anywhere accurate, said that he had first heard Lehmann sing when he was fourteen, and then many times after until the war. He met her again during the 1955 reopening of the Vienna Opera, the first time she returned after 1937.
He then said that his next meeting with Lehmann was in 1976 when he sat in his office at the Opera, staring in disbelief at a small bronze box on his desk labeled Lotte Lehmann. ‘All that was left of that glorious voice and presence was a mere handful of sand,’ he said. The urn of ashes had been sent from Santa Barbara for a memorial service on the marble steps of the Opera entryway, the old section which had survived the war. Her remains were buried in a place of honor in the Vienna cemetery.
As a special tribute to Lehmann, Grace Bumbry, her most famous student, came down to the stage to talk with Prawy about Lehmann’s influence as a teacher of Lieder and opera interpretation. Miss Bumbry sang Auf dem Kirchhofe, by Brahms, twice to demonstrate the dramatic and emotional difference in presentation that she had learned from Lehmann.
After the lecture, we walked through the snow back to Hertha Schuch’s apartment, and, as if we had not had quite enough, we watched with her a half hour TV presentation on Lehmann by Marcel Prawy. This, by the way, capped a week that contained four radio programs on Lehmann as well.”
That Sutcliffe article and excerpts have appeared in several publications.
Judy Sutcliffe was impressed with the level of Lehmann enthusiasm at the Centennial mentioned above and asked Centennial participants to sign up to receive a newsletter that would continue the sharing of Lehmann memories and information. Thus the Lotte Lehmann League was born. Newsletters were published from 1989 – 1994 and were mailed to hundreds of Lehmann fans around the world. These Newsletters have also found their way into libraries and archives and may be read in their entirety on this website.
I worked with Ms. Sutcliffe on the Lotte Lehmann League in compiling and editing the newsletter. In 1989 Judy and I obtained a grant to fly to Europe to uncover new Lehmann material… ultimately destined for the UCSB Lehmann Archive. We discovered photos, beautifully preserved on original glass negatives in the Max Rheinhardt Instititute in Salzburg, recorded interviews from the Austrian Broadcasting Company and much more. It was fascinating to talk to Lehmann’s recording engineer at Odeon, who, even at 90, could remember details musical, technical and personal. His memories can be found in the LLL newsletters.
It must be noted that many elements of Lehmann’s “career” after death were promoted and supported (sometimes financially) by Frances Holden. She allowed me, for instance, to rifle through her Lehmann recordings, where I discovered unreleased test pressings such as Schubert’s Nacht und Traüme which was published for the first time by RCA on CD in 1989. Support from Holden’s friends was also crucial. Holden had established a strong connection with the library at UCSB and a personal connection with its then director Joe Boissé. Other Holden friends included Judy Sutcliffe who was essential in the editing and publication of the first edition of Beaumont Glass’ Lehmann biography, which was underwritten by Holden.
Lehmann’s fame was enhanced in a different way when Dotsie Hellmann, a wealthy former singer and Lehmann fan, commissioned the American opera composer Thomas Pasatieri to write songs (which he later orchestrated) based on Lehmann’s poems. The resulting Sieben Lehmann Lieder are in print and in performance around the world. Along these same lines the art song I Never Knew was written by Ned Rorem in 2001 to Lehmann poetry in an English translation by Judy Sutcliffe. This was commissioned as the required song for the Lehmann Foundation’s CyberSing 2002, the international web-based art song contest. By the way, many composers of the past were inspired by Lehmann: Wilhelm Kienzl, Paul Redl, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Robert Heger Fünf Gesänge nach Versen von Lotte Lehmann Op. 24, Leo Sach, Felix Weingartner: An den Schmerz (a song cycle dedicated to Lehmann), and others. Better known is the fact that Richard Strauss wrote several operas with Lehmann in mind. When these works are performed Lehmann’s name is often mentioned.
As might be expected, Lehmann’s birthplace, Perleberg, Germany, celebrates its famous daughter with an archive in the same building in which she attended school. This collection has received various Lehmann recordings, letters, photos and even her art works in donations from Eric Hvølboll and myself. Mr. Hvølboll bought Lehmann’s piano and shipped it to the Perleberg museum. It is also in Perleberg that the Lotte Lehmann Woche (Lotte Lehmann Week) takes place each year in August. Master classes, sometimes taught by former Lehmann pupils, and Lieder recitals are presented in the picturesque setting of this north German town. One may learn more about forthcoming celebrations at: http://www.lotte-lehmann-woche.de
The German documentary film director Rita Nassar produced the Lehmann tribute film Stimme des Herzens (Heart’s Sound) in 1990 which has been seen on both German and Austrian TV and is available (in German only) on the world wide web. It may also be seen at the Lehmann Archives at UCSB. Lehmann appeared in the MGM film Big City that is sometimes seen on TV and is available at UCSB as well. [Excerpts may be glimpsed on YouTube.]
Lehmann gave many of her recordings (including test pressings), art work, letters and memorabilia to initiate the Lotte Lehmann Collection at UCSB. The staff there, now directed by curator David Seubert, continues to catalog, translate and make Lehmann’s legacy available to the public. They present various exhibits of photos of her as well as her art work, and plan to have the whole collection cataloged and available on their website. In 2010 I donated my Lehmann collection to UCSB, which augments the original Lehmann archive, but is kept as a separate collection.
A separate quite complete collection of Lehmann’s commercial recordings is housed by the Music Department at UCSB.
Frances Holden supplemented the Lehmann Archive over the years after Lehmann’s death, but willed most of the remainder of Lehmann’s estate to the Music Academy of the West. There one may find Lehmann’s scores as well as some books, photos and newspaper clippings. The then President of the Music Academy of the West, David Kuehn, gave this collection of instantaneous cut acetates, 78s and LPs to the Marr Sound Archives at the University of Missouri, Kansas City which was able to handle such fragile documents. The former Dean of the Conservatory of Music at UMKC, Kuehn was familiar with the Sound Archives’ collections and services. After Holden’s death, this collection had been in storage for some time at the Music Academy and he wanted to find a good home for it. At UMKC the Lehmann LPs and acetates collection are maintained separately from the general collection. In 2010 I donated Lehmann LPs that were not already part of their collections. The Lehmann collection greatly compliments the Fred Calland collection, which includes 34,000 vocal recordings.
Since UCSB had collected such a great amount of Lehmann recordings, etc., in 1994 I donated my collection of Lehmann recordings, photos, letters, memorabilia, books, etc. to the Stanford University Archive of Recorded Sound, Braun Music Center. I augmented this collection in 2010. Other singers of her time that are well documented in this archive include Melchior, Flagstad, Crooks, Chamlee and Bonelli. The Lehmann Collection is accessible in the Archive to all researchers.
Stanford has added to the collection in a few small ways. A couple of years ago they had access to some National Concert and Artists Corporation photographs. They made a special effort to acquire any Lehmann photographs from these files, including duplicates (which might help making reproductions for books and articles easier).
In 2011 I donated Lehmann 78s, LPs, CDs, DVDs, as well as printed material to the Yale Historical Sound Recordings
In 1999 I established the Lotte Lehmann Foundation, to preserve and promote Lehmann’s legacy and to further the appreciation and study of art song. A semi-annual newsletter reporting on the Foundation’s activities was distributed world-wide. The Advisors included Lehmann students as well as other artists and administrators who appreciate Lehmann’s unique place in the classical vocal world. The Foundation’s website was visited by thousands each month. It included samples of her writings, recordings, photos, art work and articles about her. The Foundation is now inactive.
In 1990 Kathy Hinton Brown wrote Lotte Lehmann; Artist Teacher for her doctoral thesis at University of Missouri-Kansas City. A vocal student of Martha Longmire, a former Lehmann student, Dr. Brown was given access to tapes of Lehmann’s interviews and master classes from the Lehmann archives at UCSB. The dissertation includes transcriptions of her conversations and excerpts from master classes, using various arias, Lieder, and mélodies to illustrate her philosophy and instruction of musical interpretation and stage presence. A readable version, Lotte Lehmann: Her Artistic Legacy, is currently in the hands of an editor, with hopes of publication in 2012.
In 2000 VAI released a VHS cassette of excerpts from Lehmann’s NEA master classes of 1965 held at the Music Academy of the West. Besides the two master class DVDs, VAI also released another Lehmann CD covering live performances and excerpts from the Columbia radio broadcasts.
During 2001 – 2002 Grace Bumbry sang a series of European and US recitals dedicated to Lehmann.
Marilyn Horne wrote extensively about Lehmann in her autobiography and also performed recitals called “Songs Lehmann Taught Me.”
In 2001, the 25th anniversary of Lehmann’s death year was marked by memorial broadcasts of filmed interviews from the 1960s in Germany and Austria. In November 2001 the Lehmann Archives at UCSB presented an exhibit of photos of Lehmann, as well as some of her own artwork from the collection.
A web-essay analysis by Kenneth Smith of Lehmann’s vocal techniques as demonstrated in Schubert recordings sampled across the years was presented in 2002. Lehmann’s vibrato, portamento, rubato, breathing, timbre, and expression of the text was analyzed with graphs and sound excerpts. I am trying to locate the original website and will offer it as soon as I find it!
Throughout 2005 former Lehmann students and Lehmann Foundation advisers recorded spoken and sung tributes to Lehmann that was published as a CD (Fall 2006) by Arabesque Records. A second such tribute may be found within these pages.
To mark the 30th anniversary of the death of Lehmann, Jon Tolansky produced two hour long programs (Program 1 Opera Program 2 Lieder) on Lehmann’s career for WFMT and its affiliates. For this project, Tolansky was able to interview Thomas Hampson, Marilyn Horne, Graham Johnson, Christopher Nupen, Charles Osborne, Carol Neblett and others.
In 2010 at the death (at about 102) of Lehmann’s close friend Hertha Schuch, her Lehmann collection was donated to the Vienna-based Theater Archiv.
CD re-releases have continued without letup. The standard fare has been expanded to include unusual performances such as a live Frauenliebe und Leben with Ulanowsky from Music and Arts. And Pristine Audio has issued a lot of Lehmann in their unique sonic remastering. Naxos has re-released Die Walküre and Rosenkavalier and a series of six CDs of Lehmann’s Lieder recordings, all with the latest in noise reduction technology.
I’m producing a multiple-CD release for the Music and Arts label of Lotte Lehmann “rarities”. This will include radio broadcasts, test pressings, a few 78s that haven’t been released as lps or CDs and a few surprises.
If you notice Lotte Lehmann mentioned in the media, or find new CDs etc., please let me know at “Your Input.”


Claudia Roden is a hero of mine. A genius food writer, she wipes the floor with so many of the so-called “Celeb Chefs.”
Claudia has never run an overdesigned, overpriced restaurant; she has, instead, travelled, eating food, talking to the people who cook it (rarely referred to, in their own culture, as chefs),and to the people who eat it; chronicling the cultures, histories and social situations that have resulted in the various cuisines she explores.
Her most famous book is “The Book of Jewish Food,” which doesn’t actually sit in my kitchen. It’s an unbelievable tome about the food and culture of the Diaspora in the near, middle and far east, as well as in North South East and Western Europe and the Americas - part History, part Sociology, part Poetic treatise on flavour and the aesthetics of real life food - and I can highly recommend it.
Another book of hers (one of several) which I really highly recommend is “Arabesque,” her journey through the near East (Morocco, Lebanon, Syria etc.)
From that book, comes the Carrot Recipe I promised the Veggies some time ago.
This one is, almost inexplicably, delicious. It’s almost too simple - a handful of ingredients, the largest of which is a huge bunch of earthy, Rooty carrots; a few basic steps, a process that’s fragrant, fast and that builds anticipation for a product that’s tasty, exotic and enjoyable.
I’ve played around a bit with the recipe as Claudia gives it, but what follows, I promise, will give you a carrot salad which will never be ignored, which has always gained me positive comments, and which rarely gives me much in the way of leftovers.


The life of the dead
Learn more about the relationship between the living and the ancestors in various cultures all around the world. You might be intrigued about the different ways we relate to death.
Hear the stories about re-burials in Uganda and experience the Day of the Dead in Mexico, where the deceased return to their families once a year. Find out how Christmas, thunderclouds and ancestors are connected in the culture of the Yolngu-people in northern Australia. And what about the Danes and our heirlooms – what do we keep and why?


So then imagine my inner turmoil after this recent visit to a second grade classroom. The teacher is conferring with a student at the back table while all the other students are spread out around the room. I bypass the kid closest to the door and sit next to, let’s call her Kayla, who has her feet comfortably propped up on her desk as she reads a graphic novel version of Captain Underpants. “How’s it going?” I ask. “Can you read me a little bit of your book?”
Kayla glances at the book. “Well, I can’t really read the words. I just tell what’s happening from the pictures.”
“Let’s give it a try,” I tell her enthusiastically. “Maybe I can help you with the hard words.” Kayla proceeds to labor through three frames of the text, needing help with many of the words.
“Hmmmm,” I mention after having helped her with supposed and joke. “I’m thinking this book might not be a just right book for you yet. That doesn’t mean it won’t be later, but we probably need to find some books that are a better fit for you.”
Kayla begins to cry. “But I want to read chapter books like the other kids are doing!” she says. “That’s my best friend over there,” she gestures towards a girl reading a Magic Treehouse book, “and she’s reading a chapter book and I want to read one too!” Her voice is starting to get louder.
“Not everyone reads the same kinds of books at the same time, and that’s ok,” I tell her, but she buries her head in her arms and begins to cry loudly. “Let’s try reading one of these other books you have in your bag,” I say as I pull out two books labeled as level 10 texts and then Ralph S. Mouse, which I quickly set to the side.
“Those are baby books! They’re too easy! My auntie says I have to read chapter books to get to be a better reader,” Kayla cries.
“Why don’t you show me how easy they are?” I ask, and I pull out Cookie’s Week and open to the first page. Sure enough, she reads smoothly and accurately, though she substitutes “windshield” for “windowsill” and doesn’t want to hear about that error.
“I want to read chapter books like the others! I don’t want everyone to know I can’t read!” she wails loudly enough for everyone in the class to hear. At this point a blonde girl nearby brings her another leveled reader that apparently Kayla had been reading yesterday. Not helpful. It’s not a chapter book.
“How about this?” I whisper, “What if I can find some books for you that are chapter books that you CAN read? Will you come to the media center with me to find those books?” I’m wracking my brain trying to think of a low-level chapter book – maybe Nate the Great? Ivy and Bean? Did we buy some Hi-Lo books for 3rd and 4th grade last year?
It doesn’t matter, because Kayla has completely fallen apart, wailing loudly, bottom lip quivering, hiccupping and gasping for air. Her teacher mouths, “I’m sorry!” to me, shaking her head. Apparently I’m fighting an old battle and have opened up old wounds.
“Why did you come in here?” Kayla wails loudly, “Everything was fine until you got here!”
I feel for Kayla. She was not at all shy about her dilemma – she’s very aware that she’s reading at a level lower than the others, and it’s breaking her heart. She has a vested interest in keeping up appearances, and that involves holding thicker books during reading time and being able to tell her friends that she reads chapter books. If I want to ensure she makes progress this year, this is a critical moment in her reading life. I need to find her books that look hard but are easy to decode.
I quickly walk down the hall and burst into the media center. Fortunately, it’s empty. “I have a reading emergency!” I announce to the media clerk. “Where are your Nate the Great or similar books?” She quickly directs me to the early chapter books and we find a few – Owl Diaries, which might be a bit on the high side, but is a graphic book with heavy picture support; Unicorn and Yeti, an even easier graphic book with three chapters; and two more books with heavy picture support, fairly simple sentence structure, and most importantly - chapters.
I run back to Kayla’s class, where she is still crumpled on her desk, crying quietly while everyone else sits on the rug for writing time. After some coaxing, I convince her to come to a back corner of the room to look at the books I’ve brought. “Are they chapter books?” is the first thing she asks, so we flip through each, looking at the tables of contents and chapter headings. Instantly, her tears dry up.
“Let’s read a few pages of one of these – which one would you like to try?” I ask. Quietly, she chooses Unicorn and Yeti and then she literally crawls into my lap, dries her tears, and begins to read. She still needs some help, and we study the pictures a good deal to understand the context, but after reading four pages, she is beaming. “Thank you!” she whispers.
Later that day as I see her class on their way to lunch she breaks out of line and runs up to me. “I read more of those books you got me! I’m taking them home to my auntie to show her I can read chapter books!”
At the time, I didn’t realize quite what had happened for Kayla. Honestly, for a while there, I thought I’d broken her. There’s nothing quite like a wailing, blubbering reader to make you feel like a conference failure.
But all Kayla wanted is what we all want – to be loved by our friends, which to her meant fitting in by reading the same types of books they had. As a teacher, our jobs are to meet kids where they are while simultaneously helping them with the emotional baggage that comes with being a struggling reader. Thankfully, there are texts that can help with this. But it’s also important to realize that without Kayla’s buy-in and emotional confidence, nothing I said to her about reading strategies would stick. She needs first to feel like she belongs, that she’s in a safe zone with her peers. Once she has that comfort, we’ll be able to work on cracking the nut of finding the skills and strategies she needs as a reader.


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Welcome to the Hopkinton High School Athletic Campus Improvements Page!
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Check it out here: Hopkinton Turf Fields Forum
For Immediate Release
Contact: Dee King
Hopkinton Public Schools
Hopkinton Schools Athletic Field Public Forum
The Hopkinton School Committee and Athletic Field Sub-Committee will host a public forum on Wednesday, October 18, 2017 at 7:00pm in the Middle School Library. The public is encouraged to attend to hear a presentation regarding potential turf fields at the High School/Middle School complex. Following the presentation, there will be opportunities for members of the public to ask questions and offer feedback. The public forum will be filmed by HCAM.CURRENT ATHLETIC CAMPUS
Proposed Future Field Layout
Next MeetingPublic Forum October 18, 2017 7:00PM - Hopkinton Middle School
Recent NewsIn October 2016, the Athletic Fields Sub-Committee was presented with a Feasibility Study prepared by Gale Associates. Established in 1964, Gale Associates, Inc. is a 100-person consulting firm of building enclosure experts, engineers, and architects specializing in the repair, renovation and adaptive reuse of existing buildings, sites and infrastructures. http://www.galeassociates.org/
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Poster on the structure of the bone (incl. Numbering and naming on the enclosed overview)
This poster measures 84 x 118 cm. The illustrations are printed on durable and water-repellent paper. The poster comes with mounted wooden slats for hanging.
The illustrations are numbered and a detailed overview with a scientifically correct nomenclature is included.
The poster shows various pedagogical illustrations, which first and foremost show the 2 main types of bone tissue (the compact and the spongy bone tissue which together make up the bone).
Furthermore, details are seen as blood vessels and the special organization in Haverske systems (cortical osteons).


Magic Bites: Special Edition Bonus Material
Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews is the first book in the Urban Fantasy series starring Kate Daniels and Curran Lennart. The series takes place in a stunning and unique rendition of the city of Atlanta.
I have read this book probably a zillion times – ok I am exaggerating, maybe – and I adore these characters and this series. With that said, I will admit that this book is a pretty slow to start. Once the action gets going, however, it doesn’t stop until the very end. I have purposefully left the name of the bad guy out of this summary just in case.
Kate Daniels is a deadly sword master and a mercenary living in a world that can’t make up its mind between magic and technology. At times, magic invades the world and feylanterns hum with light and anything tech stops working. Only to have the magic later drain away so technology can reassert itself.
Thanks to a necromancer piloting an undead vampire, Kate learns that her guardian and had been murdered. Although she works for the Mercenary Guild, Kate manages to get access to her guardian’s case at the Order of the Knights of Merciful Aid.
Kate has taken great pains to avoid bringing attention to herself. She has a plan for her life. He is going to kill Roland, the leader of all necromancers and possibly the most powerful man in the world. He is also Kate’s biological father. The investigation threatens to push her identity into the spotlight and maybe into Roland’s line of sight.
She must learn to play nicely with the big wigs in Atlanta and keep a low profile at the same time. When evidence turns up linking Greg’s killer to the shapeshifters, Kate must deal with Curran, The Beast Lord of Atlanta. Leader of the Free People of the Code, Curran is stubborn and overbearing, and he expects to be obeyed without thought or question. Curran and Kate clash (big time) while they attempt to find her guardian’s killer.
The evidence then leads Kate to believe that Max Crest, a plastic surgeon she is casually seeing, may be the killer. When Kate, Curran, and a band of lycanthropes confront Crest, Kate knows their could-have-been relationship is over. He is not the killer.
Finally, Kate catches a break after interrogating an undead vampire’s head (yes, seriously). Kate, Curran, and Alphas of the different shapeshifter clans track down the location of Greg’s killer. An epic battle ensues where Kate is nearly crushed by a collapsing ceiling and the Beast Lord receives third degree burns fro breaking through a blood ward to rescue her.
It’s finally over… or is it? Too many things don’t add up for Kate who believes the fight isn’t over yet. Curran accuses her of being a power hungry merc who got a taste for the limelight and doesn’t want to fade back into the shadows.
When Kate receives a severed head on a pole with a note attached to it, Curran has to admit that she had been right. The real killer identifies himself and his plan to Kate, but she manages to fend him off, forcing him to leave. Shortly after, Kate learns that Derek, her teenage werewolf sidekick, has been taken by Greg’s murderer.
After a gruesome phone call, Kate and Curran travel to the final battle. After a good luck kiss from Curran, and a stab to the killer’s heart, they emerge victorious.
Later, Kate is recovering in her home and wakes up to banging on her roof. The Beast Lord had broken into her house by bashing through roof earlier in the story. At the end of this book, the Beast Lord and Derek are patching up her roof and Kate accepts a fulltime position with the Knight of Order.
At the end of Magic Bites, Gordon and Ilona Andrews added some great bonus material. My favorite portion is the POV of Curran. Gordon Andrews wrote a few scenes from the book through Curran’s eyes. I love getting his perspective, and I found it was startlingly different from Kate’s. I would love to see a whole book from Curran’s point of view, but I’ll take anything I can get.
The bonus material includes:
- FAQs about the series (Did you know that Dr. Doolittle is a honey badger? Thanks for the mouse, stupid!)
- Character profiles (I hope they do this with Magic Burns because I’d like to read Andrea’s)
- Explanation of the different factions (Mercenary Guild, The People, etc.)
- Faction Quiz (Which would you belong to? Apparently, I would be a shapeshifter)
- Curran’s POV (Awesome…just really awesome)
- A Questionable Client, the prequel to Magic Bites about Kate and Saiman. This short story also gives some background on Kate and her involvement with the Vohlv’s. This relationship surfaces later in the series and is not necessary to understand the storyline.


This is Oakland: A Guide to the City's Most Interesting Places is a photo-driven travel/guide book that informs, entertains, and inspires. The book profiles 90 of the most interesting places to visit in Oakland- from cafes to boutiques- and the innovators who own them.
This book is of course for anyone who lives in or is visiting Oakland or the San Francisco Bay Area and wants to know where to go for food, drink, shopping or just plain fun. Perhaps more importantly, though, this book is for anyone, across the country, who is inspired by creative thought and the pioneering spirit. Oakland's restaurants are trend-setting, and its shops are getting national attention. People who want to know what's next are looking to Oakland. We're offering them a glimpse inside.
This is Oakland: A Guide to the City's Most Interesting Places
Retail price $34.99; Release date June 2014; 10 x 8 in; 200 pp; limpbound cover
This is Oakland has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, Sunset, Design Sponge, Conde Nast Traveler, C Magazine, Lonny, Anthology, Refinery29, Honestly WTF, Rue, PopSugar, PureWow, City Sage, SFGirlbyBay, 7x7, and on KTVU Fox 2. For a full list of coverage, please see our press page.
This is Oakland won a 2015 Ippy Award (bronze medal) for Best Non-Fiction Book in the West/Pacific category.
Melissa Davis lives in Oakland, CA with her husband and son, and runs the Oakland-based public relations agency Ruby Press. Before moving west and breaking into PR, she was a fashion editor for 8 years in New York City, working at Harper's Bazaar and Mademoiselle magazines. Melissa continued to work in magazines when she arrived in San Francisco, as both a fashion editor at San Francisco city magazine, 7x7, and as the Northern California editor for Lucky magazine. She launched Ruby Press in 2001, and moved to Oakland in 2003. Melissa has been featured in numerous media outlets, including Martha Stewart Weddings, Marie Claire, Lonny, The San Francisco Chronicle, PopSugar, and Refinery29, and her PR advice has been featured in Chronicle Books' Craft Inc. and Ready to Launch: The PR Couture Guide to Breaking into Fashion PR. In This Is Oakland, she combines her love of Oakland with her passion for good design and great stories.
Kristen is a Bay Area native, living and working in Oakland. Her commercial photography business grew out of a love of visual storytelling after receiving an interdisciplinary degree at UC Berkeley. Since starting her business in Oakland in 1997, Kristen’s photography has helped a wide variety of commercial and editorial clients tell their stories through vivid, stylized and light filled images.
Her work has been featured in numerous print and online news sites and blogs including California Brides, Gourmet, Martha Stewart Weddings, The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Magazine, Saveur, Sunset Magazine, Time, The Wall Street Journal, the Glitter Guide, Casa Sugar, Honestly WTF, Style Me Pretty, Snippet & Ink, San Francisco Classical Voice (SFCV.org) & SFist.org.
Kristen’s commercial clients include: Chandon, Chewing the Cud, La Condesa Restaurant, The Culinary Institute of America, Darms Lane Winery, Newton Vineyards , Parallel 37 at the RItz Carlton San Francisco, The Ritz Carlton Half Moon Bay, San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Symphony, Sonoma State University, & Whole Foods Market.


Hebrews Bible Study
Tuesdays Sept. 26-Nov. 14
Join us as we dig deeper into the Hebrews book in the Bible. We’ll journey with Jeff Cavins and Andrew Swafford (Ascension Press) to better understand and appreciate the astounding generosity of God and all He has given us in the Church. $40 includes the study guide. If you would like to simply view the video (and not have a study guide) the cost is $15.
Register by September 8.
Mom’s Faith Study Group
“Angels” by Dr. David Jeremiah
Friday Mornings 8:30a-10:00a
Saturday Morning 8am-9am
Begins September 29/30
Mom’s join us on Friday mornings from 8:30am-10:00am OR Saturday morning from 8:00am-9:00am for a time of prayer, connection and formation (Daily Mass included with Friday’s session). Durind the fall/winter 2023-2024 our focus will be on the book “Angels” by Dr. David Jeremiah.
$35 ($20 if you already have a copy of the book)
Register by September 15, 2023
Who Am I To Judge?
Wednesdays Sept. 13-Nov. 1
Join us for an 8-part program where Edward Sri uses engaging stories and the wisdom of the saints to unpack the Catholic moral worldview, and equips us to engage relativism, appealing to both the head and the heart. $20 Registration fee includes a study guide. Register by August 21, 2023. **A few extra book copies remain – you can still register late!
St. Joseph Community now has a FORMED subscription and it’s available to you for FREE! FORMED.org is often described as “Catholic Netflix” and has hundreds of studies, videos, documentaries, audio, books, and much more. Check it out today! Click here to create your own free FORMED account! (Search “Rosemount” or “55068” to easily find our parish.)
The Heart of Business – The Spiritual Dimension of Work & Business
Hubert Joly joined us for a 1 hour webinar on May 25, 2021, to enlighten and encourage us and help us answer the question “Why do we work?”


1. Custom Sneaker Design Process:
- This section will be a comprehensive guide, breaking down the custom sneaker design process into manageable steps. It will cover brainstorming ideas, sketching concepts, selecting materials, and executing the design. We'll emphasize the importance of planning and how each decision impacts the final product. We'll also discuss digital design tools for those who prefer a more high-tech approach.
2. The Evolution of Custom Sneaker Culture:
- Here, we'll embark on a historical journey through the evolution of custom sneaker culture. We'll explore its origins in street art and DIY culture and how it has grown into a global phenomenon. We'll delve into key moments in custom sneaker history, such as the rise of sneaker customization shops and the influence of custom sneakers on mainstream fashion.
3. Materials and Tools for Custom Sneakers:
- This section will provide an extensive overview of the materials and tools necessary for custom sneaker projects. We'll discuss different types of paints, brushes, markers, fabrics, adhesives, and other essential items. Readers will gain a comprehensive understanding of what they need to bring their creative visions to life.
4. Iconic Custom Sneaker Designs:
- In this part, we'll showcase the work of legendary custom sneaker artists who have left an indelible mark on the industry. Readers will learn about the unique styles and signature designs of artists like Mache Custom Kicks, The Shoe Surgeon, and Sneaker Customizer. We'll delve into the stories behind some of their most iconic creations, providing inspiration for aspiring custom sneaker designers.
5. Custom Sneakers as Wearable Art:
- Here, we'll dive deep into the concept of custom sneakers as wearable art. We'll explore how these unique creations challenge traditional notions of footwear and transcend mere utility. Readers will gain an appreciation for the craftsmanship and artistic vision that go into custom sneaker design, as well as their role in broader art and fashion movements.
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- This section will introduce readers to major sneaker brands that offer customization options, such as Nike, Adidas, and Converse. We'll guide readers through the customization platforms offered by these brands, explaining how to use them effectively. This can be especially helpful for those who want to start their custom sneaker journey with established brands.
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- We'll explore the pros and cons of DIY customization versus hiring a professional custom sneaker artist. Readers will learn about the sense of accomplishment that comes with creating their own designs, as well as the benefits of professional expertise and access to advanced techniques. We'll help readers make an informed choice based on their skills, goals, and resources.
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- This section is for those who are passionate about custom sneaker culture beyond creating their designs. We'll offer tips on how to build and curate a unique collection of custom sneakers, including where to find rare and limited-edition pieces. We'll also discuss the potential investment value of unique custom sneakers.
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"It was July 20, 1969; I was mesmerized by what I was seeing on TV. The space module Eagle had just landed on the moon and Neil Armstrong, one of America's astronauts, was about to be the first man to walk on the moon.”
My mind was whirling back twenty years to my childhood. It was a time when we lived without electricity or running water. A much simpler time, but one filled with the excitement of experiencing life in ‘The Olden Days’, yet caught up in the explosive change of the future.
Did you ever wonder what it was like in ‘The Good Ole Days’, before electricity, shopping malls, computers, and iPods? In this fascinating book by author Cliff LeCleir, you will find out how simple things like bath night, a bag of pretzels, searching the swamp for a Christmas tree, and driving over a wood plank bridge can be an exciting adventure. Each story will draw you in and bring you in touch with a bygone era. Journey with me back to 1945, which, at the age of three, is my earliest memory and we will go… “From the Outhouse to the Moon”.
Cliff LeCleir grew up on a rural Wisconsin farm but always had an inclination to be involved in business. After graduating from Cornell High School, he job-hopped around to several big cities before returning to Wisconsin, where he took a night job at a hamburger stand. Finding more lucrative employment as an expeditor for Allis Chalmers, he worked in production control until joining the Army. He received training in "Stereogrametic compilation" before applying and receiving the job of the Colonel's clerk, and during Vietnam he received orders to go on a mapping project in Ethiopia. After fulfilling his service obligation, he returned to his job at Allis Chalmers, got married, started a family, and began college. While in college he started his first business and graduated with a double major in business and geography. He has built and bought five different businesses during his career and claims that this was all part of God's plan to take a simple farm kid who knew how to work and show him what the Lord could do with so little. He resides just outside of La Crosse, Wisconsin, in the Township of Barre. His main joy is his wife Sandy, his three children, his twelve grandchildren, and, as of this writing, his one great-grandchild. What a country! Let's hope and pray it stays that way.


Scott Anderson, Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart. The New York Times Magazine, 11 August 2016. “Beginning in April 2015, the photographer Paolo Pellegrin and I embarked on a series of extended trips to the Middle East. Separately and as a writer-photographer team, we had covered an array of conflicts in the region over the previous 20 years, and our hope on this new set of journeys was to gain a greater understanding of the so-called Arab Spring and its generally grim aftermath. As the situation continued to deteriorate through 2015 and 2016, our travels expanded: to those islands in Greece bearing the brunt of the migrant exodus from Iraq and Syria; to the front lines in northern Iraq where the battle against ISIS was being most vigorously waged.
We have presented the results of this 16-month project in the form of six individual narratives, which, woven within the larger strands of history, aim to provide a tapestry of an Arab World in revolt.”


Quartic amplitudes for Minkowski higher spin
2016 (English)In: Higher Spin Gauge Theories / [ed] Lars Brink, Marc Henneaux, Mikhael A Vasiliev, Singapore: World Scientific, 2016, 353-370 p.Chapter in book (Other academic)
The old problem of finding general quartic interaction terms between fields of higher helicities on the light-front is discussed from the point of view of calculating the corresponding amplitudes directly from the cubic vertices using BCFW recursion. Amplitude based no-go results that has appeared in the literature are reviewed and discussed and it is pointed out how they may perhaps be circumvented.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Singapore: World Scientific, 2016. 353-370 p.
Higher spin theory, Scattering amplitudes
IdentifiersURN: urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-11757ISBN: 978-981-3144-09-5 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hb-11757DiVA: diva2:1063821


Award-winning, Best-selling Author of the Wicked Years Novels
Gregory Maguire is the author of the best-selling Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, the basis for the Tony Award-winning Broadway and international hit musical of the same name. He is also the author of the best-sellers After Alice, a novel based on Lewis Carroll’s 150-year-old classic, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; as well as Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Lost, Mirror Mirror, and the other Wicked Years novels that include A Lion Among Men, Son of a Witch, and the final novel in the series, Out of Oz. A popular keynote speaker, Maguire has lectured at universities, libraries, education/teachers conferences, and arts and culture institutions in the U.S. and abroad.
Maguire has been the recipient of several awards and fellowships. His fellowship residencies include: Blue Mountain Center, New York; the Hambidge Center, Georgia; The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Vermont. In addition to writing, Maguire is a national figure in children’s literature education. From 1979 to 1986, he was a professor and associate director of the Center for the Study of Children’s Literature at Simmons College. Since 1986 he has been co-director and founding board member of Children’s Literature New England, Inc., a nonprofit that focuses attention on the significance of literature in the lives of children.
Maguire’s other books include The Next Queen of Heaven, a farcical and imaginative novel set on the eve of Y2K, and Making Mischief: A Maurice Sendak Appreciation, a visual tribute to the art of legendary Maurice Sendak.Maguire has also written several children’s novels including The Hamlet Chronicles, a seven-book series that includes Seven Spiders Spinning, Six Haunted Hairdos, Five Alien Elves, Four Stupid Cupids, Three Rotten Eggs, A Couple of April Fools, and One Final Firecracker. Though he is best known as a fantasy writer, he has also written picture books, science fiction, and realistic and historic fiction.
Maguire received his Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Tufts University. He divides his time with his family between Massachusetts and Vermont.
Praise for Gregory Maguire’s Lectures
“Gregory Maguire’s combined talents of both writing and performance are unparalleled. He captivated our audience of 300, and the range of emotion during his reading ranged from laugh out loud humor during his reading from Leaping Beauty to breathless anticipation and wonder during his reading from Wicked. We could not have been more pleased with his appearance.”
— Maria Lockheardt, Executive Director of Worcester Public Library Foundation
“Both entertaining and thought-provoking, Gregory Maguire’s talk inspired my honor students and their guests to reflect on the place of narrative and literature in contemporary culture and in their own lives.”
— Mary Dockray-Miller, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English, Lesley University
“In the last two years I have been responsible for organizing the Writer’s series at the library; Gregory Maguire’s program was by far the best. His high energy, wit and deep thoughts about his work gained the awe and respect of the audience. It was also a treat to see an audience consisting of all ages enjoying themselves together.”
— Andrea Herman, Head of Adult Services, Crandall Public Library
“On behalf of the Chester County Library Trust, we would highly recommend Gregory Maguire as a speaker. Gregory Maguire was absolutely fantastic. He was gracious and accommodating to our guests during and after our event. He truly held the audience’s attention with humor and entertaining stories.”
— Diane Gring, Public Relations, Chester County Library & District Center
“Gregory Maguire’s appearance in the Hazelwood School District was nothing short of inspirational. In his remarks to students he shared his life story in a way that encouraged young people to write, to dream and to set high goals. His use of humor and his warm response to the students’ questions made the presentation one they will never forget. Gregory Maguire has earned my highest praise: he is a wonderful teacher.”
— Dr. Chris L. Wright, Superintendent, Hazelwood School District
“Gregory gave a performance rather than a mere talk. He was funny, charming and delightful. I was amazed at how warm and gracious he was in spite of a hard travel schedule. He was very kind and generous with his fans. We filled 500 seats and I heard some had to be turned away.”
— Beth Petrucci, Adult Services Librarian, Pima County Public Libraries
“Many of our conference attendees felt this conference was the best in 21 years, and much of this was due to Gregory Maguire’s highly creative presentation.”
— Jack Chambers, Florida State College at Jacksonville


|Behind the scenes at RP Library: advisory board airs its problems
A new book by Louise Erdrich or a thriller by Daniel Silva has been published, and you want to read it. You go to the library. They don’t have it on their shelves, but they can get it for you because research shows Guerneville or maybe Sonoma has copies.
So a request is made and books, fiction or technical subjects are in constant crisscrossing of the county filling requests from one library to another.
This is how libraries work.
The shelves of the Rohnert Park-Cotati Public Library are filled with books and DVDs. But if a library-goer wants to read a specific book and doesn’t want to buy a copy at a bookstore up in Santa Rosa or on Amazon, he or she can always order it and get a copy within two weeks or less. Admittedly, sometimes more, depending on the availability (could be Mendocino or Lake counties).
Obtaining requested books from other libraries is an onerous burden on the staff at the local library, and it’s not getting any smaller.
At the July 17 meeting of the Library Advisory Board (LAB), branch manager Nancy Kleban told the board, “It used to be around 400 books on reserve waiting to be picked up. The last time I checked this week it was close to 700.”
The board took note of the enormous amount of paperwork to fill requests, but had no ready answers. The usual one is to raise fees on requests and fine people who don’t pick up their copies.
“Books on hold involves a huge amount of work,” said Barbara Mackenzie. “There’s no public recognition of the work involved. It’s a crushing burden.”
RP City Councilman Amy Ahanotu wondered if “lowering the number of books people order down to five volumes or DVDs would help.”
Kleban told the board plans have been voiced to raise library fines up a nickel to 25 cents a day. She intimated the Sonoma County Library Commission will probably discuss this at their August meeting.
The continuing unpopularity of Monday closures also came up.
“LAB members are ambassadors to the public, and we are aware of a huge number of people who are upset with this,” said John Dell ‘Osso.
Breanna Walsh, teen representative to the board, pointed out the inadequacies of the Young Adult section squeezed between the children’s section and the computers. Ideas were tossed out, but all had their own shortcomings.
The board also discussed an outreach program to get in better touch with people who might not be regular library-goers.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if the county library commission takes up this subject at their August meeting,” said Tim May, a visitor from the Petaluma LAB.
The RP-Cotati Library Advisory Board adjourned after nearly two hours of discussion of problems still facing the library’s basic functions.
No adjustment in fees will be discussed again until their next quarterly meeting in October.
Dell ‘Osso touched on the subject of fundraising, always a job library advisory boards face. “I wonder if a parcel tax measure on the ballot would work,” he said. He praised the work Friends of the Library did with their recent book sale and consistent sales at the bookstore.
This subject and the rising burden with putting requests on hold until picked up (not everyone actually picks up books or DVDs requested). Should they be fined? We’ll have to wait until October.


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In the second volume, I was talking about the loss or fragmentation of the soul. A large part of the humankind has gone through and is going through this. It is believed that those who have lost some parts of their souls will not be able to get thr...
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Michelle Obama Kicks Off Monthlong Book Tour for “The Light We Carry” The Former First Lady’s Third Book Details Her Techniques for Overcoming Fear, Helplessness, Self Doubt
By Main Street Sentinel Staff
Former First Lady Michelle Obama launched a six-city book tour this month with a ranging, often funny conversation at the Warner Theater in Washington, DC, with the former TV host Ellen DeGeneres. Ms. Obama explained the origins of her third book, “The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times,” and how she tries to focus on the things that she can control while otherwise feeling out of control.
For her, that meant that during the isolation of the pandemic lockdown and the convulsions of racial unrest of that period, she did a lot of knitting.
“The interesting thing about knitting and using your hands and making something is that it is meditative,” she explained to Ms. DeGeneres. “In so many ways, it is like a faith. It’s a thing that shuts your worrying mind and lets your hands take over.”
The book is not intended to be a how-to-manual, she explained, but rather a description of her “personal toolbox,” the habits, attitudes, beliefs, and objects that help her overcome her feelings of fear, helplessness and self doubt.
In the book’s introduction, which was published on November 15, Ms. Obama writes that she wants to show, “what I use professionally and personally to help me stay balanced and confident, what keeps me moving forward even during times of high anxiety and stress.”
“The Light We Carry” is Ms. Obama’s first book since 2018’s massively successful memoir “Becoming,” which sold over 17 million copies.


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Below is most of my Editor's Letter piece that appears in the fall 2016 issue of The Great Smokies Review. I hope it will be useful to writers tackling the challenge of creating historical fiction that defies stereotypical thinking about this genre. (If it even is a genre.) Here you go:
Historical fiction: a controversy for the ages. Is it history or fiction? Is it literary treasure, or is it trash?
In the mid-nineteenth century Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote novels set in past eras to shed light on themes of guilt and sin that permeated his own. So—his were treasure; no debate.
At the other end of the spectrum, there was the historical romance, the territory primarily of female authors. These novels were selling a half-million or so copies a year, literary milk chocolate to Hawthorne’s eighty-percent dark. He complained to his editor: “America is now wholly given over to a d[amned] mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public is occupied with their trash.” Interesting to note that Hawthorne’s masterwork, The Scarlet Letter, has a subtitle: A Romance.
Jump ahead to the end of the 20th century. Consider the discouraging beginnings of another scribbling woman, Hilary Mantel. (The tide would eventually turn, when she made Man Booker prize history by becoming the first woman and the first British writer to win the literary award twice—for Wolf Hall, and Bring Up the Bodies, her two Thomas Cromwell sagas.) In a New Yorker profile, she recalls the fate of her first novel, A Place of Greater Safety: “I wrote a letter to an agent saying would you look at my book, it’s about the French Revolution, it’s not a historical romance, and the letter came back saying, we do not take historical romances. They literally could not read my letter, because of the expectations surrounding the words ‘French Revolution’—that it was bound to be about ladies with high hair.”
The scorn poured upon the head of historical romance slopped over to the whole genre. Critics fussed about the very name, “historical fiction,” a contradiction in terms. Terry Roberts, in his Craft Session essay for this issue, shares his approach to the problematic dichotomy: “…In writing historical fiction, fact and fancy should have a symbiotic relationship. You can know too much about your past setting as well as too little. In particular, you can know too much too soon so that the history inhibits your imagination rather than primes it. For that reason, my practice has almost always been to alternate writing with research all the way through the process, so that history and story have a mutually beneficial rhythm.” (Click here to read Terry's essay in The Great Smokies Review.)
A further testament to the worthy interplay of imagination and fact was delivered by The New York Times on Sunday, August 7. In that edition, the newspaper included a special section with this note at the top:
“Though we are excited by innovations like virtual reality and digital storytelling, we also recognize the lasting power of the broadsheet. The custom design of today’s section aims to artfully explore the uses to which that format can be put. It is a special ink-on-paper product, one not available in digital form. It is finite and tactile; to read it you must have gotten your hands on the Sunday paper.”
The work printed on the broadsheet was neither NYC-urbane nor Postmodern hip. It was an excerpt of The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead. Historical fiction. Familiar history, with a twist. To tell his story afresh, the author turned to his childhood imagining of the Underground Railroad as a real train, on tracks, enabling the characters and the story to move back and forth through time—a magical journey essential to our understanding of our country’s present as well as its past.


From a release by KTXS-TV:
KTXS is proud to be in partnership with local historian Jay Moore and his Class of ’78 Productions in which KTXS will rebroadcast his acclaimed “History in Plain Sight” Abilene documentaries.
Moore, a history teacher at Abilene High School, has produced these specials through the generosity of the Dian Graves Owen Foundation and with the help of the Abilene Preservation League. These specials have previously run on Suddenlink Cable Public Access Channel 7 and will also continue to run on Suddenlink, as well as KTXS.
Mr. Moore comments, “The history of Abilene and this part of Texas is rich in stories and I have always enjoyed mining these tales and bringing them to the light of day. I believe that knowing local history helps us understand who we are as West Texans.”
“KTXS is thrilled to bring these wonderful documentaries to a greater audience across the entire Big Country. We share Jay’s passion and enthusiasm for the history of Abilene and the Big Country”, says Kyle Krebs, General Manager of KTXS/KTXE/KTES/CW Abilene.
Next Airings will be:
Sunday, Sept. 18 – 12pm-12:30pm – “Who is that Street”
Sunday, Sept. 25 – 12pm-12:30pm – “Abilene Beginnings”
The series has been named a Merit Award Winner by the American Association for State and Local History, which is the nation’s most prestigious award for history projects and organizations.


Its new comic book day!!!!!! there are some new comics hitting the Comixology app today! Check out my Comic Book Day Picks for 10/28/20 👻👻👻👻
Zorro in Land That Time Forgot #1
The landmark comics event of the year begins here, as two of literature’s best-loved and most action-packed properties meet in a crossover that was destined to happen: Zorro in the Land That Time Forgot! Licensed and fully-endorsed by Zorro Productions, Inc. and Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., this astounding mini-series organically merges two different worlds in a story of action, intrigue, and prehistoric adventure that will have you cheering and on the edge of your seat! Set before the events of the original novel The Land That Time Forgot, Italian explorer Fausto Caproni leads an expedition to rediscover the fabled island continent of Caprona, first discovered by his grandfather but lost in the mists of time. On the eve of his embarkment from the port of La Reina de Los Angeles, Caproni has secured funding for his voyage from the Spanish government, as well as from the wealthy de la Vega family. But with a detachment of Spanish soldiers set to accompany Caproni, Don Diego de la Vega detects a nefarious plot. Diego-who is secretly the swashbuckling hero, El Zorro-stows away aboard the ship, and once they reach Caprona, Fausto, his sister Marina, the crew of the galleon Redenzione, the Spanish soldiers, and Zorro himself will find themselves thrust into a nightmare world of rampaging dinosaurs and prehistoric beasts that still roam in a land that time forgot! This lost world blockbuster is sure to thrill fans of Zorro, Edgar Rice Burroughs, dinosaurs, and romantic adventure in an all-new tale that follows in the footsteps of fantasy’s greatest authors. Written by Mike Wolfer (Pellucidar, The Land That Time Forgot) and illustrated by sensational newcomer Alessandro Ranandi, featuring a main cover by Roy Allan Martinez (Zorro, The Monster Men), a variant cover by Miriana Puglia (The Moon Maid), and a Limited Edition cover by Alessandro Ranaldi.
Batman Three Jokers #3
The final chapter of the most terrifying and personal Batman mystery is here! Still reeling from their last encounter with the three Jokers, Batman, Batgirl, and Red Hood discover the terrible truth about the Three Jokersâ plot. Will the caped crusaders have the strength needed to put an end to the maniacal menacesâ master plan once and for all, or will it be lights out for good? You wonât want to miss the stunning conclusion of Batman: Three Jokers as it completes its trajectory as the ultimate examination of The Joker and his never-ending conflict with Batman.
Shang-Chi #2 (of 5)
THE HITS KEEP ON COMING! Shang-Chi may have finally met his match in the form of this strange new assailant, Sister Hammer – BUT WHO IS SHE REALLY? Find out in this shocking reunion! Rated T+
Come back next week for a fresh batch of new comic book day picks only on HipsterZOMBIEJoint Experience.com!


We'll have a few pre-made free craft kits outside the center's front door starting Tuesday 01/20/2020 after 11:00 am so you can follow along with our craft on Thursday!
Submit your craft photo or join a zoom workshop to be entered in this month's drawing.
Crayola Coloring Set Giveaway
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01/19/2021 Tuesday 1:00 pm - Video Game Workout for Kids
01/20/2021 Wednesday 2:00 pm - Eat Healthy on a Budget Zoom Workshop
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01/21/2021- Thursday 1:00 pm- Physics Fun with Marshmallows
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01/22/2021- Friday 11:00 am- Storytime- How to Find a Unicorn
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The MBS Xojo (Real Studio) SQL Plugin
Access SQL Databases
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You can order a license here: Order
This plugin part is not included if you buy a Complete set license. You can use it independend of all the other plugins.
Our MBS Xojo SQL Plugin is an alternative database interface to Xojo. It can be used either with the database class (via SQLDatabaseMBS class) or with our own SQLConnectionMBS class which gives more options.
- Bind parameters to prepared statements by name instead of index.
- Binding type is optional on prepared statements.
- Connect to SQL databases in multithreaded mode for better GUI responsibility.
- Depending on what you do with your database our plugins can be magnitudes faster!
- Handle blob values with more than one GB of size.
- Read and write to blob field values in small blocks.
- Access databases where no plugin comes with Xojo: DB2, Sybase, SQL Anywhere, Informix and Interbase.
- Use MySQL with Enterprise, Community or embedded libraries.
- Use parameters in SQL commands.
- Transfer rows in bulk mode to reduce network traffic and increase speed.
- Perform SQL queries and SQL commands in multithreaded mode for better GUI responsibility.
- Use data consumer to read blob data or data producer to write blob data continuously.
- Use SpatiaLite library with Xojo.
- Use API for online Backups in SQLite.
- Use your own copy of the native connector library.
- Works with Xojo. Works with Web, Desktop and Console.
- Works with MySQL Bit data type. (Feedback case 16547)
- Connect to Microsoft SQL Server without installing native client using OLEDB option.
- Can provide RecordSets for use with Xojo reports engine.
- Supports moving forward/backword, first and last in result sets.
- Use SQLCipher library with Xojo, a version of SQLite with built in encryption.
- With version 15.3 supports internal SQLite library built into the plugin with SQLite Encryption Extension. Compatible to Xojo's encrypted databases and offering AES 128, 256 and RC4 encryption.
The MBS Xojo SQL Plugin is a Xojo plugin for accessing multiple SQL databases (Centura SQLBase, DB2, Firebird, Informix, InterBase, MariaDB, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, ODBC, Oracle Database Server, PostgreSQL, SQL Anywhere, SQLite, SQLCipher and Sybase). It uses native APIs of target DBMS so applications developed with this plugin run swiftly and efficiently. The product also provides a low-level interface that allows developers to access database-specific features. By encapsulating a vendor's API, the plugin acts as middleware and delivers database portability. See details on supporting SQL database servers on different platforms:
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|Microsoft SQL Server||Supported (DB-Library, OLE DB)||FreeTDS ODBC driver should be used
|Sybase||Supported (Open Client, ASE & ASA)||Supported (Open Client, ASE & ASA)|
|DB2||Supported (DB2 CLI)||Supported (DB2 CLI)|
|Informix||Supported (Informix CLI)||Supported (Informix CLI)|
|Centura (formerly Gupta) SQLBase||Supported (CAPI)||Supported (CAPI)|
|MySQL / MariaDB||Supported (MySQL C API)||Supported (MySQL C API)|
|PostgreSQL||Supported (libpq)||Supported (libpq)|
|ODBC||Supported||Supported (iODBC, see www.iodbc.org)|
We have two interfaces in this plugin. SQLConnectionMBS is the native one and gives more flexibility. There is also SQLDatabaseMBS for easier porting of existing projects to our SQL Plugin. As SQLDatabaseMBS class is a subclass of the Database class, it may require a Xojo Database Server license to use (this depends on the exact rules Xojo, Inc. sets).
As with Xojo, the SQLConnectionMBS class works without a Database Server license. For the SQLDatabaseMBS class you need the Database Server license as it is a subclass for the database class.
Works with Mac OS X, Windows and Linux for Desktop, Console and Web.
You do not need to compile or provide your own SQLAPI library as the plugin contains SQLAPI. You may need database access libraries from the database vendors.
For your information:
The MBS Xojo SQL plugin license includes a cross-platform unlimited license of SQLAPI++ which costs 299 USD for a C/C++ developer. Of course this bundled license works only inside the plugin. If you want to develop with SQLAPI in C/C++, please order a separate license from SQLAPI.com website.
Watch tutorial videos:
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MBS Xojo Plugins


I want to give you a brief overview of an investigation that began almost five years ago, led by me but involving the efforts of photojournalist J. Ross Baughman, photo historian Rob McElroy, and ex-infantryman and amateur military historian Charles Herrick.
Our project, in a nutshell, dismantles the 74-year-old myth of Robert Capa’s actions on D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the subsequent fate of his negatives. If you have even a passing familiarity with the history of photojournalism, or simply an awareness of twentieth-century cultural history on both sides of the Atlantic, you’ve surely heard the story; it’s been repeated hundreds, possibly thousands of times:
Robert Capa landed on Omaha Beach with the first wave of assault troops at 0630 on the morning of June 6, 1944 (D-Day), on freelance assignment from LIFE magazine.
He stayed there for 90 minutes, until he either inexplicably ran out of film or his camera jammed.
During that time he made somewhere between 72 and 144 35mm b&w exposures of the Allied invasion of Normandy on Kodak Super-XX film.
Upon landing back in England the next day, he sent all his film via courier to assistant picture editor John Morris at LIFE’s London office, instead of delivering it in person.
This shipment included pre-invasion reportage of the troops boarding and crossing the English Channel, the just-mentioned coverage of the battle on Omaha Beach, and images of medics tending to the wounded on the return trip.
When the film finally arrived, around 9 p.m., the head of LIFE’s London darkroom, one “Braddy” Bradshaw, inexplicably assigned the task of developing these crucial four rolls of 35mm Omaha Beach images to one of the least experienced members of his staff, 15-year-old “darkroom lad” Denis Banks.
After successfully processing the 35mm films, in his haste to help Morris meet the looming deadline Banks absentmindedly closed the doors of the darkroom’s film-drying cabinet, which inexplicably were “normally kept open.” Inexplicably, nobody noticed that Banks had closed them.
As a result, after “just a few minutes,” that enclosed space with a small electric heating coil on its floor inexplicably became so drastically overheated that it melted the emulsion of Capa’s 35mm negatives.
Notified of this by the horrified Banks, Morris rushed to the darkroom, discovering that eleven of Capa’s negatives had survived, which he “saved” or “salvaged,” and which proved just sufficient enough to fulfill this crucial assignment to the satisfaction of LIFE’s New York editors.
That darkroom catastrophe blurred slightly the remaining negatives, “ironically” adding to their expressiveness. Furthermore, as a result of the overheating, the emulsion on those eleven negatives inexplicably slid a few millimeters sideways on their acetate backing, resulting in a visible intrusion of the film’s sprocket holes into the image area.<


Review of Dietetics: Manual for the Registration Examination for Dietitians, 2022-2024 Edition
Review of Dietetics is the most comprehensive manual that covers all essential content in the “Study Outline” of the Commission on Dietetic Registration, which is the basis for current licensure examinations. This and previous editions have helped over 10,000 dietitians to become registered.
Price: $175 (Spiralbound)
Essentials of Nutrition for Chefs
Essentials of Nutrition for Chefs is the award winning textbook used in culinary programs around the country. In addition to providing practical applications of nutrition principles, the book also showcases resource lists, case studies, best practices, emerging issues, and advice from 65 chefs and nutrition experts.
Price: $65 (Hardcover)
Recipe Nutrient Analysis
Recipe Nutrient Analysis: Best practices for calculation and chemical analysis is a must-have for anyone who calculates the nutrients in recipes – especially professionals analyzing recipes for restaurants or other foodservice venues, cookbook authors and food editors.
Price: $55 (Hardcover)
Portion Photos of Popular Food, 2nd edition
Portion Photos of Popular Food, 2nd edition, contains actual-size, full color photographs of more than 100 of the most frequently consumed foods. This book is a versatile tool for group or individual instruction, nutrition assessment and counseling. Spiral-bound, with laminated pages, this tool shows popular foods in three different portion sizes.
Price: $95 (Spiral-bound)
If you are looking for a book that’s an all- around, useful nutrition reference on just about everything, Essentials of Nutrition for Chefs is a great choice. It’s a straight- forward guide written for culinary students, chefs, food educators and food writers.
Using [Portion Photos of Popular Foods] is without a doubt the single most in-demand resource nutrition educators ask for when planning and delivering both individual and group presentations. Once the educator shows the pictures, the learner conceptualizes real-life amounts of foods (so beautifully shown)... What a remarkable achievement!
I’m using [Recipe Nutrient Analysis] on a daily basis. I’m participating in a massive project for a supermarket chain. The group has a dietitian on staff who also uses the book for referencing tough questions from our group of analysts... So much excellent, well-researched information.


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Bar Mitzvah: A History
Follow the story of bar mitzvah from Abraham to the Simpsons
“Today I am a man!” To hear these words coming from the mouth of a thirteen year old boy is nothing strange in Jewish life. On the day the boy comes up to the reading of the Torah for the first time at his bar mitzvah, he takes on the ancient responsibilities of his faith. Many think that since time immemorial, Jewish boys have been going through this ceremony, joined in recent years by girls celebrating bat mitzvah. But they are wrong, for bar mitzvah is not as ancient, and bat mitzvah is not as young, as people suppose.
The Palais de Justice at Rouen in Normandy is a fine ornate Renaissance building. Enter the spacious courtyard, head for the grand steps leading up to the law courts, and peer under the steps. You’ll find a small door leading down into an excavated space under the courtyard, where lie the remains of a twelfth century stone house with Hebrew graffiti on the walls. In this forgotten space teenage boys studied the classical Jewish texts – Bible and midrash, Mishnah and Talmud. Beneath the bustle of the city streets, we are back in the time and close to the place where bar mitzvah began. The small communities of early European Jewry lived there in Normandy and along the River Rhine in what is now Germany. One day, when a boy of thirteen stood up in the synagogue and came up to the Torah to read, his father said “Blessed be the one who has freed me from punishment because of him.” In this simple way, the boy became a man and the ceremony was born. It was just a few words, and the occasion didn’t even have a name. And it was only a few rabbis whose sons did it. But it became a rule, as the thirteenth century author known as Avigdor the Frenchman put it:
And this is the ruling: it is a duty to recite this blessing over one’s son when he is thirteen years and one day old, when he stands up to read from the Torah, and one needs to stand over one’s son to place one’s hands on his head, and to recite the blessing as expressed here. And this is the French custom.
But who read the Torah commentaries of Avigdor the Frenchman? Rashi and his better known followers appeared to know nothing of bar mitzvah. So it might all have been forgotten about were it not for changes in the European world-view at the Reformation. In many Churches the “ritual of the word” took on an increasing importance—and at the same time Jewish parents in Germany and then in Poland took up the idea of bar mitzvah with enthusiasm, celebrating with their friends and with the boy making a speech to show his learning. Some found the new fangled custom a step too far, but it soon spread across income groups, from the pious to the less involved, and geographically as well. Rabbis were not asked for their approval—it just happened. “Let us not have too many of them” grumbled Rabbi Solomon Luria “or it will completely disrupt our time for Torah learning.” Little did he know how popular it would become. The new custom became established in Poland—in those days half the Jews in the world lived there. What happened there was going to spread out elsewhere as Jews travelled.
From Krakow in 1595 we have the first community rules to regulate the ceremony, laying down the right of the bar mitzvah to be called to the Torah, the size of the party, and even the food that could be served. From Worms on the Rhine in 1617 we hear for the first time of a boy having to relearn his portion because it was discovered at the last minute he had been taught the wrong one. In Hamburg (1712) we have the first recorded instance of a community banning bar mitzvah parties because of the boys’ misbehaviour. In 1748 the celebration crossed the pond, when Mordecai Sheftall became bar mitzvah in Savannah Georgia. A couple of generations later, in 1817 in Berlin, the very first ceremony for girls was held. The congregation of 400 was “moved to tears” at this “most festive and most beautiful celebration.” Yet now, as we approach the two hundredth anniversary, that event has been forgotten. Judith Kaplan’s bat mitzvah in New York in 1922 is widely remembered. Why such selective memory? One reason is that the many ceremonies for girls in the nineteenth century were “confirmation” ceremonies. The girls did not read from the Torah, but graduated as a year group and answered questions about their faith. Was this thought more suitable for girls? Perhaps, but many boys have had exactly the same ceremony over the last 200 years. Bar mitzvah was in slow decline throughout the nineteenth century and Reform and Conservative synagogues replaced it with confirmation for both boys and girls. In Orthodox synagogues, Hebrew standards declined, and bar mitzvah boys were often just saying the Torah blessings, not reading from the scrolls.
In the 1920s and 1930s the bar mitzvah revival began, spreading from the USA where formal educational requirements were introduced. With higher minimum standards, the sense of achievement was revived and more families wanted to celebrate. Since WW2 girls in many congregations have had individual ceremonies at which they too can read from the Torah on a Friday night or Saturday morning. Today, group confirmations are in decline and bar and bat mitzvah are more popular than they have ever been. Non Jews celebrate “faux mitzvah”, black Americans “black mitzvah” and dogs come along for a “bark mitzvah.” Parties are often extravagant but Jewish renewal with its DIY approach is strong too. No longer do we have, as was common two hundred years ago, the situation where poorer families are unable to celebrate, for we live in a world where everyone can do their own thing, from a few drinks at home to hiring a football stadium or a cruise liner. Older people too have joined in: over 500 communities across the USA offer courses leading to adult bat mitzvah: there have even been groups of women celebrating together in their care homes. Older men too are joining the party: at the age of 83 men come forward to celebrate a second bar mitzvah, and even a third at the age of 96. In an age where Jewish weddings and circumcision are both on the decline, bar and bat mitzvah are surpassed only by Jewish funerals as the most widespread Jewish life cycle event. By chance, the ceremony became one that appealed to everyone, the key to its success being the mixture of the social and the spiritual, the bar and the mitzvah.
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“Michael Hilton’s book combines a thorough grounding in the primary sources and scholarly literature about the history of bar mitzvah with the experience of an established congregational rabbi. For anyone seeking insight into the origins, development, and significance of this major Jewish lifecycle event, this is the book to consult.”—Marc Saperstein, professor of Jewish history and homiletics at Leo Baeck College
“Bar mitzvah and bat mitzvah are contemporary Judaism’s best-known and least understood observances. Michael Hilton does a wonderful job of assembling the lore, laws, and customs regarding bar mitzvah and bat mitzvah in a way that is easily accessible to scholars, educators, and laypeople. Highly recommended!”—Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin, author of Putting God on the Guest List: How to Reclaim the Spiritual Meaning of Your Child’s Bar or Bat Mitzvah
The Jewish coming-of-age ceremony of bar mitzvah was first recorded in thirteenth-century France, where it took the form of a simple statement by the father that he was no longer responsible for his thirteen-year-old son. Today, bar mitzvah for boys and bat mitzvah for girls are more popular than at any time in history and are sometimes accompanied by lavish celebrations.
How did bar mitzvah develop over the centuries from an obscure legal ritual into a core component of Judaism? How did it capture the imagination of even non-Jewish youth? Bar Mitzvah is a comprehensive history of the ceremonies and celebrations for both boys and girls. As cultural anthropology informed by rabbinic knowledge, it explores the origins and development of the most important coming-of-age milestone in Judaism. Rabbi Michael Hilton has sought out every reference to bar mitzvah in the Bible, the Talmud, and numerous other Jewish texts spanning several centuries, extracting a fascinating miscellany of information, stories, and commentary.
Michael Hilton is Rabbi Emeritus of Kol Chai Hatch End Reform Jewish Community, a lecturer at Leo Baeck College London and a Honorary Research Fellow of the Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Manchester. He is the author of The Christian Effect on Jewish Life and coauthor of The Gospels and Rabbinic Judaism: A Study Guide.


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