by Bruria Cooperman | Dec 12, 2021 | Canada
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...
by Bruria Cooperman | Dec 10, 2021 | Canada
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...
by Bruria Cooperman | Dec 10, 2021 | Canada
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...
by Bruria Cooperman | Dec 10, 2021 | Canada
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...
by Bruria Cooperman | Sep 16, 2021 | Canada
Reprinted from The J.ca: Cross-generational Trauma Of Holocaust Families Eased By Jewish Humour “Along with the events and the trauma of the Holocaust, humour needs to be included in the narrative.” 19 July 202012:57 pm By TheJ.ca Staff “They survived...
by Bruria Cooperman | Jul 22, 2021 | Canada
For me, being Jewish and growing up in postwar Canada meant being invisible. Every day, I went to school bearing my new Canadian name. Every morning, I stood up and recited the Lord’s Prayer. Once a month, a minister came into my classroom and taught me the bible. At...
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