Growing up, I would use any name except my own. It was partly because I didn’t feel worthy of my full name, Emanuelle, and partly because I didn’t like my nickname, Emmie. Eventually, I grew.
What We Inherit: A Jewish-American Collection
We are made up of those who came before us. Our inheritance may be easy to note: a common family name, or a familiar creative temperment; or it may be more subtle: how or when we say goodbye or where we place our shoes when we come inside on a rainy day. In honor of Jewish American Heritage Month, Girls Write Now presents "What We Inherit", a collection of memoirs that stitches yesterday to today.
COLLECTION CURATED BY VAHNI KURRA AND MORAYO FALEYIMU. FEATURED ART DESIGNED BY MORAYO FALEYIMU.
Starman
A story about martians, but mostly, about humanity.
The Four Ps
This piece illustrates my journey with animal advocacy, and how it taught me valuable lessons about myself and the world.
my dog spoke hebrew and it felt profound
The relationship between two deaths.
Sapogi
“Sapogi” is a tender yet heart-wrenching examination of a mother-daughter relationship and a testament to the nuance of the cultural divide, or conversation, between immigrant parents and their children with shoes as the centerpiece.
Lucky
In the context of mortality, the pandemic and the imminent impacts of climate change, it is beyond important to remember how objectively lucky we are to be alive. There is a certain priceless appreciation in simply existing and breathing comfortably within ourselves.
75 Years
I wrote this piece after visiting the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site last summer and attending the United Nations Holocaust Memorial Ceremony on January 27, 2020. Seventy-five years have passed since the liberation of Auschwitz.
Goodbye Berlin
My family’s suffering in Russia, Poland, and Germany during World War II prompted me to reflect on the values of courage, perseverance, hope, and the price of war. My great-grandmother’s ordeal in occupied Russia during the Battle of Stalingrad inspired this story, about a single mother’s sacrifice amid the inferno of war.