Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi — Grace Paley: A Jew–ish writer

“Paley published her first collection of stories in 1959. For the next few decades, she documented in her inimitable prose the struggles of young city women raising children, coping with their often-impossible husbands, and protesting the wars and iniquities that men were perpetrating. In midlife, Grace moved with her second husband from New York City to a small hilltop cabin in Vermont where, in her last decades, she would become a poet of nature and the aging body. She was named poet laureate of Vermont in 2003.

Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, who discovered Paley’s hilarious story-telling voice when she was a young mother and scholar, was fortunate to get to know her in her last decades, in that small cabin in Vermont—and also on the “protesting streets” of Vermont and New Hampshire. In this lecture, she will speak about the voice one hears throughout Paley’s work: that of a diminutive Jew-ish writer who takes the burden of the world into the “griefpack” on her shoulders, and engages God, who is always “good for conversation.””

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