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books:

Hidden New York: A Guide to Places That Matter

3 reviews
Steven J. Zeitlin, Marci Reaven

Rutgers, 2006

The Cube, the Mosaic trail, the Hua Mei Garden: What a great New York!
Every week, it seems, someone writes from the country beyond the Hudson River to announce a visit to New York. "What shall I do?" you ask. "What should I see?" It's a funny request: Because I live uptown, in a lovely, quiet neighborhood that you probably wouldn't want to visit and I never want to leave, I rarely go to what you may think of as "New York." Still, I muster a list. Soup ...

Giving a Voice to Sorrow: Personal Responses to Death and Mourning

5 reviews
Steven J. Zeitlin, Ilana Beth Harlow

Perigee Trade, 2001

insightful, compassionate, and inspiring
The authors seem to have gleaned many insights about grief and remembrance from their conversations with the bereaved whose inspiring stories are so compassionately presented in this book. The stories illustrate ways people have coped with death through the use of creativity -- crafting commemorative art, personal rituals and stories. Although you can, of course, read the book cover to cover,you ...

No Reason to Talk about It: Families Confront the Nuclear Taboo
David S. Greenwald, Steven J. Zeitlin

W. W. Norton & Company, 1987

While Standing on One Foot: Puzzle Stories and Wisdom Tales from the Jewish Tradition

3 reviews
Nina Jaffe, Steven J. Zeitlin, ...

Henry Holth & Co (J), 1993

Simply Divine
This collection of 18 stories (in Hebrew Chai means both 18 and life) was masterfully collated by Judaic storyteller and Bank Street College professor Nina Jaffe and Steve Zeitlin, a Ph.D. in urban folklore at a New York cultural heritage foundation called City Lore. Each piece is accompanied by a brief introduction explaining the background for the story. Some tell where the story is from--the ...

A Celebration of American Family Folklore: Tales and Traditions from the Smithsonian Collection

Yellow Moon Press, 1992

Recipient of the Anne Izard Storytellers' Choice Award. For four consecutive summers, a steady stream of visitors poured into the Family Folklore Tent at the annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C., carrying photo albums, quilts, scrapbooks, memorabilia, and a dazzling array of family stories in their memories. And, for the first time, one of America's most distinguished museums was there to record their tales. This book is a ...