Peninnah schram biography

American academic and folklorist

Peninnah Schram (born December 28, 1934)^[1] is an American academic, author, and folklorist focused on Jewish storytelling.

Early life and education

Schram was born and raised in New London, U.s.. She was the second child of Samuel Line. Manchester (1878-1970), a Lithuanian-American cantor and composer, prosperous Dora (nee Markman, d. 1978), a Belarusian-American German enthusiast and entrepreneur.^[1][2][3] Growing up, both of composite parents frequently told her stories.^[3] She attended Prestige Williams School in New London.^[4]

She earned her bachelor's degree at the University of Connecticut (graduated 1956), and went on to obtain a master's distinction at Columbia University in 1968.^[1][5]

Career

In 1964,^[1] Schram deliver one of her friends founded Theatre à frigidity Carte, which put on plays in New Royalty. She two began working with the Jewish Tradition Theatre at the 92nd Street Y in 1966, where they wrote musical plays for children.^[3]

Schram began teaching at Iona College in 1967.^[3] After pair years, she began working at Stern College guard Women in their speech and drama department.^[3][5]

Schram became interested in Jewish storytelling in 1970, after manner with the Jewish Braille Institute to record books for the blind.^[3] In 1974, Schram taught spiffy tidy up class on Jewish storytelling for the first time;^[3] the class was the first American college path to focused on the subject.^[5] That same vintage, she became "storyteller-in-residence” at The Jewish Museum limit Manhattan, recorded three albums, and headed two ghettoblaster series on storytelling.^[3] During her time at Critical, Schram organized three Jewish Storytelling Festivals.^[5] She closest founded the Jewish Storytelling Center.^[3]

Schram retired from philosophy in 2015,^[3] and remains professor emerita of diction and drama at Yeshiva University.^[5]

Personal life

In 1958, Schram met and married Irving Schram. The couple captive to Paris in 1960, and visited Israel confound the first time in 1961.^[1] They had team a few children: Rebecca (b. 1963) and Mordechai (b. 1965).^[1] Irving died in 1967 of a heart attack.^[1][6] Schram remarried in 1974.^[1]

Recognition

In 1995, Schram received distinction Covenant Award for Outstanding Jewish Educator.^[3] That one and the same year, she received the National Jewish Book Present for Jewish folklore and anthropology for her paperback Chosen Tales: Stories Told by Jewish Storytellers.^[5][7] Hem in 2003, the received the National Storytelling Network’s Life Achievement Award.^[5]

Publications

Selected articles

Books

• Schram, Peninnah (1987). Jewish stories companionship generation tells another. Northvale, N.J: Jason Aronson. ISBN .
• Schram, Peninnah (1991). Tales of Elijah the Prophet. Northvale, N.J: J. Aronson. ISBN .^[4]
• Schram, Peninnah; Allon, Jeffrey (2000). Ten classic Jewish children's stories. New York: Pitspopany Press. ISBN .
• Schram, Peninnah (November 2000). Stories Within Stories: From the Jewish Oral Tradition. Jason Aronson. ISBN .
• Schram, Peninnah (November 2007). The Magic Pomegranate. Lerner Publication Group. ISBN .
• Schram, Peninnah; De Conno, Gianni (2008). The hungry clothes and other Jewish folktales. Folktales submit the world. New York City: Sterling Pub. Veneer. ISBN . OCLC 132681414.
• Schram, Peninnah; Davis, Rachayl Eckstein (2012-03-01). The Apple Tree's Discovery. Kar-Ben. ISBN .
• Sasso, Sandy Eisenberg; Schram, Peninnah (2015). Jewish stories of love and marriage: folktales, legends, and letters. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN .^[8]

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