March 6, 1929 - August 2, 2000
Her light blessed many constellations...
March 6, 1929 - August 2, 2000 |
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About this Website After mom died, I realized that my 25 years of living in Israel had unwittingly generated and endowed me with volumes of our correspondence. Mom's letters often read like a diary, a journalist's notebook, a draft for an autobiography. She dispatched detailed accounts of family life cycle events. She shared her joys and sorrows. She reflected on health and aging and attitudes. She wrote about the books she read with her weekly book club, the lectures and Torah study sessions she attended, the Jewish community activities she participated in. She often rambled on describing an interesting person she had met or a remarkable connection – so often a result of her involvement in community and Israeli-oriented organizations. Reading these letters today, I can still hear her voice, her concern, her enthusiasm and her love. I can feel her amazing presence. Mom eagerly adopted each new technology that benefited her writing and editing endeavors, and it shows in her letters – over the years they transformed from electrically typewritten onion skin pages, to dot-matrix computer printouts, to thermal-paper faxes and finally email messages – which led my brother Robert to propose we call our mother "e-ma". It is thus only natural that I preserve and honor the memory of our beloved Bernice Meyer Saltzman by creating this website – an anthology of excerpts from her letters and writings. This is a work in progress – it is far from complete. Lisa Saltzman Mishli. Maccabim, Israel. March 2001 Contact us: (Click on name to start a mail message)
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 Bernice Meyer Saltzman |