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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 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 Publishes Story in Book, Participates in New CAJE Conference

By On August 18, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Peninnah Schram, professor of speech and drama at YU’s Stern College for Women, recently published a story in New Mitzvah Stories for the Whole Family (Reclaiming Judaism Press, 2014), an anthology of 43 stories in honor of poet Danny Siegel. Her story is titled, “Bringing Joy to Others.” The first anthology in the Mitzvah Stories […]

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Schram Publishes Two Articles in Storytelling Magazine, Performs at Interfaith Comedy Feast

By On November 21, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Peninnah Schram, professor of speech and drama at YU’s Stern College for Women, recently published two articles in the October/November/December 2013 issue of Storytelling Magazine. The articles are titled “The Wisdom of a Listening Heart” and “Folktale Connections: Before ‘Lifting Words Off’ the Page.”

Schram also performed as a Jewish comedian and storyteller at the Interfaith […]

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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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