Review by Judy Batalion - The Washington Post
November 8, 2022
In ‘Come to This Court and Cry,’ Linda Kinstler examines how stories of the Holocaust are passed down and altered
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By Judy Batalion - Sydney Morning Herald
June 27, 2021
Though I prided myself on my progressive, ask-me-anything parenting, I secretly dreaded discussing three things: sex, death, and the Holocaust.
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By Judy Batalion - TIME Magazine
April 8, 2021
On Yom Hashoah, we light memorial candles and mourn the dead. But which narratives of the Holocaust do we recall? Why have certain stories predominated our understanding while others have seemingly vanished?
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By Judy Batalion - The Globe and Mail
April 2, 2021
My grandmother, “Bubbe Zelda,” raised me. On 1980s afternoons, she took me to Mackenzie King park in the Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood of Montreal, a verdant area flanked by Jewish community centres. Bubbe had survived the Holocaust and frequently told me stories about the murdered sisters she so missed.
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By Judy Batalion - The New York Times
March 18, 2021
They went undercover, smuggled revolvers in teddy bears and were bearers of the truth. Why hadn’t I heard their stories?
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Judy Batalion - The Canadian Jewish News
August 29, 2017
Nearly 10 years ago, I honeymooned in Japan, where my husband and I marvelled less at this grand new stage of our lives, and more at the incredible presentation of the food (not to mention the prices).
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Judy Batalion - Oxford Art Journal
October 3, 2016
A few years back I took a hiatus from academic work in the area of feminist collaborative art and domestic representations to write a memoir. I’d recently become a mother, and the book traced the generational experience – how my emotional heritage, derived from my mother and her mother in turn, played out in my own practice of raising a daughter.
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Judy Batalion - Harper’s Bazaar
August 10, 2016
Comedian Judy Batalion on what it's really like to be a guest who works the wedding.
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Judy Batalion - New York Times Sunday Review
June 11, 2016
I recently received an email from my daughter Zelda’s preschool director titled “The Importance of Messy Play.” Children learn through process, she wrote.
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Judy Batalion - The Washington Post
January 8, 2016
I clutched my 3-year-old’s fingers as we prepared to walk on her school stage. When we waltzed on with 75 other Nutcracker dancers – Zelda in her miniscule Victorian slip, me with my 38-week pregnant belly – the auditorium burst into laughter. What was I doing here?
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Judy Batalion - The New York Times
February 11, 2014
The first of a 12-part series on parenting.
Holding a 13-page form from the pile on our dining room table, I called out across our apartment, trying to get my husband’s attention.
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Judy Batalion - The New York Times
January 4, 2013
I grew up in a Montreal duplex lined with old newspapers, videocassettes and a Tetris puzzle of cobwebbed credenzas. My mother, born on my grandparents’ flight from Nazi-occupied Poland, had formative years filled with loss.
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Judy Batalion - Narratively
September 3, 2012
An intimate look into the lives of the New York gallery scene's silent schleppers.
Before every serene art gallery show, dozens of people struggle with impossible catalogue deadlines, finicky lighting, and work that is just too wide for the door.
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