INTRODUCTION She was no more than 4 foot 11, a Japanese version of every stereotype we have seen of an Asian woman -- slightly stooped, bowlegged, shuffling along, holding her wicker basket, dressed casually for an afternoon of grocery shopping.  Then I caught...

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In a speech at Guildhall on 24 November 1992, marking her Ruby Jubilee on the throne, 'she' said: "1992 is not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it has turned out to be an annus...

My 70th Birthday Party Speech When we became engaged, Earl told my father to have his rabbi talk with Rabbi Bulka in Ottawa. After the perquisite investigation, Rabbi Green said to my father: Host g’davent git -  You prayed well. …. But I think I was the one who...

AM I SHRINKING AND TURNING BLONDE? My mother was barely 5' 1" and like many of her generation, became blonder and blonder with time. In her later years, I do remember a particular smell permeating her bedroom -- medicinal? Chinese emporium in Kensington? She used it...

HUMOUR AND THE HOLOCAUST For This I Survived? Children of Survivors Beyond the Trauma. Bruria Lindenberg Cooperman  "Tell me Sam. Where did you and my dad meet?" "We went to camp together!" There has to be some laughter, even in hell. They had lived through...