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Life-Tumbled Shards is a medical memoir dealing with illness, grief and loss. It touches on many other subjects: life in Jerusalem, life in the Old City, basic Jewish mourning customs, Jewish observance, the Holocaust as it affected the author's family, as well as her early years in Israel. The author, herself an artist, felt the need to rebuild herself. By instinct alone, she took hesitant steps. Through parallel processes, in paint and in words, she searched to find another facet of herself. Topics woven into the manuscript: - Family relations, - Mother-daughter relations, - Family medical crisis, - Adjusting from a normative American suburban upbringing to life in Israel and raising children in a culture that was foreign to the mother, - Jewish feminism, - Modern-orthodox Jewish woman, - Challenges to a creator/mother as she seeks to rehabilitate herself after a great loss, - 20th-century Jewish history, - Holocaust remembrances, - Second Generation memories and questions, Israeli history, - Jewish-Muslim co-existence in the Jerusalem's Old City, - Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem life, - addressing Israel and modern Zionism, - seeing a private loss as a reflection of the most universal aspect of humanity, - facing death, - explaining common Jewish practices and Israeli culture to general audiences, - Arab-Israeli tension and - The centrality of Jerusalem in Judaism.

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Heddy Breuer Abramowitz is an American-Israeli multidisciplinary artist and writer. Recurring themes in her visual work include urban landscape, Jerusalem beyond the cliché, introspective self-portraits, the Jewish woman, the immigrant experience, loss and commemoration, and the Holocaust as a legacy. Born in Brooklyn, NY, to Holocaust survivors, she grew up in Oxon Hill, Maryland, a southern Maryland suburb of Washington, D.C. She moved to Israel in 1980, and was a long-term resident of Jerusalem's Jewish Quarter in the Old City.Abramowitz was guest artist-in-residence at the Kol HaOt Gallery in Jerusalem in 2017, creating works on loss and memory. In 2007, she was an International Fellow resident at the Vermont Studio Center. She exhibits widely in Israel and abroad. She blogged on culture and her perspective on life in the holiest of cities at her personal blog ""Golden Ochre: Art and Jerusalem,"" at Times of Israel, and wrote for The Jerusalem Post. She is a founding member of Jerusalem's Studio of Her Own organization dedicated to promoting women's art.Her American upbringing in a predominately Catholic environment and the international tone of her hometown set the stage for living in a capital city of vastly different identities in the eye of the Middle East storm. Abramowitz lives and works in Jerusalem. For more, view her website: https: //heddyabramowitz.com/

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