{"title":"Looking for Joseph: A Memoir in Midrashim","authors":"Jo-Anne Berelowitz","doi":"10.1353/col.2023.a902702","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The author’s paternal grandfather died before she was born. Her father, following an Ashkenazi custom, named his daughter (the author) after his deceased father. This naming custom is intended to honor the deceased and keep their memory alive. All her life, the author struggles with how to keep alive the memory of someone she has never known. Her father isn’t much help, for he seems to have hardly known his own father. Frustrated, the author turns to the ancient rabbinic practice of midrash—inventing a supplemental account to fill in the gaps in her father’s account. Midrash, a kind of “supposing,” or speculation, allows her to imagine her grandfather.","PeriodicalId":83408,"journal":{"name":"University of Colorado law review. University of Colorado (Boulder campus). School of Law","volume":"75 1","pages":"112 - 92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"University of Colorado law review. University of Colorado (Boulder campus). School of Law","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/col.2023.a902702","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:The author’s paternal grandfather died before she was born. Her father, following an Ashkenazi custom, named his daughter (the author) after his deceased father. This naming custom is intended to honor the deceased and keep their memory alive. All her life, the author struggles with how to keep alive the memory of someone she has never known. Her father isn’t much help, for he seems to have hardly known his own father. Frustrated, the author turns to the ancient rabbinic practice of midrash—inventing a supplemental account to fill in the gaps in her father’s account. Midrash, a kind of “supposing,” or speculation, allows her to imagine her grandfather.
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