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Shulamit Rose

by Lawrence Greenspun

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The End 01:10

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“What’s in a name?” Juliet asks from the balcony.

A lot, it turns out, if that name is Shulamit Rose, which Jack Gordon finds on a memorial plaque in his childhood synagogue. Born just a few months before Shulamit and a few blocks away in the same Cherry Hill, New Jersey, neighborhood, Jack sets out to fill in the blanks of Shulamit’s story and her unusual name.

The journey takes him spinning back not just through his own suburban, Baby-Boom childhood, but to what he imagines as the source of Shulamit’s name in the Yiddish-speaking shtetls of Eastern Europe and the Nazi death camps. After creating Shulamit’s narrative from nothing more than her name, Jack confronts the reality of what Annie Lerner, Shulamit’s mother, offers as a summary of all of human history, as well as an apt epitaph for Annie and Shulie’s own experience as conceived by Jack: “Powerful men wreak havoc.”

In the end, Jack is left to consider his own role in wreaking havoc through the power of storytelling and the life-changing implications of what amounts to a visual typo.
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Shulamit Rose is a work of fiction. Other than the public figures mentioned in the text, all of the characters are products of the author's imagination.

Both the recorded and print versions of Shulamit Rose are provided by the author without charge.

Listeners and readers who’d like to show their appreciation are invited to support Rescue-Release-Repeat–a nonprofit, wildlife rehabilitation facility.
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The author also encourages you to support Jewish Studies and, in particular, the teaching and learning of Yiddish at the university or Jewish educational institution of your choice.

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released August 5, 2022

Author: Lawrence Greenspun

Narrator and Sound Engineer: Eitan Brown at Clear Echo www.clearechosound.com

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Bibliography

The following works are referenced in Shulamit Rose:

Chekhov, Anton: “The Lady with the Dog,” Russkaya Mysl, 1899, translation by Constance Garnet, page 4.

Goldfaden, Abraham: 1880, “Rozhinkes mit Mandlen.” Shulamith.

Hemingway, Ernest: A Farewell to Arms, New York: Scribner, 1929, page 3.

J. Geils Band/ Justman, Seth: 1981, “Centerfold,” Freeze Frame.

Led Zeppelin/Jones, John Paul; Page, Jimmy; Plant, Robert: 1971, “Misty Morning Hop,” Led Zeppelin IV.

Led Zeppelin/Page, Jimmy and Plant, Robert: 1971, “Stairway to Heaven,” Led Zeppelin IV.

Morrison, Van: 1972, “Tupelo Honey,” Tupelo Honey.

Short, Bobby: 1976, “Charlie”—Revlon perfume jingle.

Shakespeare, William: Romeo and Juliet, Folger Shakespeare Library, edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine, Act II, Scene ii, 46-47, shakespeare.folger.edu/downloads/pdf/romeo-and-juliet_PDF_FolgerShakespeare.pdf.

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Lawrence Greenspun South Bend, Indiana

Lawrence Greenspun is a Cherry Hill native and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. He serves as director of public sector engagement at the Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California, and spent more than 25 years as an educator from first grade to graduate school. Lawrence and his wife Ellen live in South Bend, Indiana, with their four dogs and two cats. ... more

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