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Schram’s Book Featured as Cover Story in New Jersey Jewish Standard

By On December 16, 2015 · Leave a Comment

A recent book published by Peninnah Schram, professor emerita of speech and drama at YU’s Stern College for Women, was featured as the cover story of a recent edition of The New Jersey Jewish Standard. Titled Jewish Stories of Love and Marriage: Folktales, Legends and Letters and co-written by Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, the book […]

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Schram Publishes Book of Jewish Love Stories

By On November 4, 2015 · Leave a Comment

Peninnah Schram, professor emerita of speech and drama at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women, has recently published Jewish Stories of Love and Marriage: Folktales, Legends and Letters (Rowman & Littlefield, September 2015). The book, which was co-authored by Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, brings together for the first time Jewish love stories from Biblical through modern […]

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Schram Presents Storytelling Workshop, Performances

By On October 20, 2015 · Leave a Comment

Peninnah Schram, professor emerita of speech and drama at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women, presented a storytelling workshop for select Israeli English department high school teachers at a conference titled“Diplomacy and International Communication in English: Inquire, Engage, Inspire,” hosted by the State of Israel Ministry of Education in Sh’dema, Israel on October […]

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Schram Contributes Essay to Book

By On May 12, 2015 · Leave a Comment

Peninnah Schram, professor emeritus of speech and drama at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women, contributed her essay “My Journey into My Name” as one of 36 accounts in a recently published book, At My Pace: Ordinary Women Tell Their Extraordinary Stories, collected and edited by Jill Ebstein. In her essay, she describes that […]

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Schram’s Books Translated into Spanish, Cited in Bibliography

By On October 28, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Two illustrated children’s books written by Peninnah Schram, professor of speech and drama at Stern College for Women, have been translated into Spanish. The original books, The Magic Pomegranate (Lerner Publishing/Kar-Ben Publishing 2008) and The Apple Tree’s Discovery (Kar-Ben Publishing 2012), had already been selected for distribution by PJ Library, a program that mails free, high-quality Jewish children’s literature and […]

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Schram to be Featured Artist at Jewish Cultural Festival in Berlin

By On June 17, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Peninnah Schram, professor of speech and drama at Stern College for Women, will be a featured performer at the 2013 Days of Jewish Culture Festival in Berlin, Germany.

With collaborator Gerard Edery, a singer and guitarist she has performed with for more than 20 years, Schram will present an entertaining, humorous and evocative […]

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Book in Schram’s Honor Selected as Finalist for Jewish Book Council Award

By On January 23, 2013 · Leave a Comment

A book published in honor of Peninnah Schram, professor of speech at Stern College for Women, has been selected as a finalist for a 2012 National Jewish Book Award by the Jewish Book Council.

The book, Mitzvah Stories: Seeds for Inspiration and Learning, is one of three finalists in the Education and Jewish Identity […]

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