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The House on
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"As a child, I was a notoriously bad eater, and
Sofie [my grandmother] took this on as a
personal challenge. We spent hours and months,
sitting in the breakfast nook in the kitchen of the
house on Taylor Road in Cleveland, spread before us
the special morsels that she prepared to tempt me.
We looked out the windows together, past our yard
to the houses on the hill. For each bite I took,
she gave us entry into one of the houses, and told
a different story each day, about the people who
lived inside.
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"These accounts informed my entire life, more
than any teacher or book or country I later
encountered.... Sofie knew and taught me that
everyone had some story, every house held a life
that could be prepared and known, if one took the
trouble. Stories told to oneself or others could
transform the world. Waiting for others to tell
their stories, even helping them do so, meant no
one could be regarded as completely dull, no place
people lived in was without some hope of
redemption, achieved by paying attention. Boredom
was completely banished by this appraoch, a simple
essential lesson that decades later was to be the
most basic message I tried to convey to my own
students.
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How to Cite This Page
For a bibliography:
Jewish Women's Archive. "JWA - Barbara Myerhoff - The House on Taylor Road." <http://jwa.org/exhibits/wov/myerhoff/taylor.html>.
For a footnote:
Jewish Women's Archive, "JWA - Barbara Myerhoff - The House on Taylor Road," <http://jwa.org/exhibits/wov/myerhoff/taylor.html>.
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