Yiddish Yoga: Ruthie's Adventures in Love, Loss and the Lotus Position
Language: English
Published by NEWMARKET PRESS, NEW YORK, 2009
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- Title
- Yiddish Yoga: Ruthie's Adventures in Love, Loss and the Lotus Position
- Author
- Grunberger, Lisa
- Publisher
- NEWMARKET PRESS, NEW YORK
- Publication year
- 2009
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- HARD BACK SKY BLUE
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1557048355
- ISBN 13
- 9781557048356
- Illustrator
- GLAZER, ART
- Dimensions
- 5X7
Meet Ruthie: a recently widowed New York City Jewish grandmother who doesn't necessarily come to yoga with the most open of minds. But when her granddaughter Stephanie gives her a year of yoga classes as a gift ("I think it will help you grieve, Bubby"), she doesn't want to risk offending her.
At first, Ruthie is skeptical of yoga and its promise of renewal, healing, and transformation ("You know what's wrong with yoga? They haven't mastered the art of kvetching!"). She can't resist poking fun at some of the new words and rituals she encounters, translating the exotic language of Yoga into the more familiar idiom of her native Yiddish culture.
As Ruthie's journey progresses from week to week, she forges new paths, new postures, and unexpected friendships, slowly overcoming her grief. Yiddish Yoga is a poignant, witty, and human story of love in its many expressions—between grandmother and granddaughter, between an older woman and her younger yoga teacher, between a widow and her beloved husband of fifty years. As Ruthie learns to let go of the past without forgetting, she shows us how to embrace the present with new vigor, strength, and courage—and, above all, makes us laugh.
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About the Author
A native New Yorker from Long Island who grew up with an Israeli mother and a Viennese father, Lisa was immersed in Yiddishkeit from a young age. Yiddish Yoga is her first book.
Lisa Grunberger’s poems have been published in numerous literary journals, and she often performs original poetry and performance pieces in NYC and Philadelphia. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Religion from the University of Chicago Divinity School and has been teaching yoga classes for many years. A native New Yorker, she now lives in Philadelphia. Yiddish Yoga is her first book.
Mort Gerberg’s cartoons have appeared regularly in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, Playboy, and Publishers Weekly, and The Huffington Post. Voted Best Magazine Cartoonist of 2007 by the National Cartoonist Society, he has also written, edited, or illustrated 40 books for adults and children, most recently editing Last Laughs: Cartoons About Aging, Retirement...and the Great Beyond (Scribner). He lives in New York City.
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