I'm Annette's "Christian" co-author of "Jewish-Christian Feminist Dialogue" (1983). Annette and I were very close for several years, beginning in 1980. In March 1989, I learned of her death in December 1988 in a most unfortunate way. I received an appeal for her memorial fund in the mail. I screamed and cried for more than three hours, the shock was that great and unexpected. I could not understand why no one contacted me to let me know. I was in Appalachia at the time, doing field research for my doct. diss. at Columbia. I've not been in touch with anyone close to or knowing Annette since then. Losing her still grieves me a lot. I guess that's why I'm writing this note to a stranger who's made the effort to pen something about her life.
I offer one correction or addition to your excellent short piece on Annette Daum. During our years together, she fought hard to be granted the official title of "Director" of Interreligious Affairs for UAHC, as was her male predecessor, instead of merely its "coordinator," a clear sexist slight for which Annette refused to stand. Near the end of her life, UAHC conferred on her the title of "Director," replete with appropriate salaried compensation. (Her dear Alfred, who adored her, probably has forgotten about the matter and so failed to make mention of his wife's prevailing.) Since the prolonged battle over her professional title mattered so much to Annette, please add it to her bio, if you can.
You might also want to add to her bibliography a piece I published in 1988. (It came out in November, unbeknownst to me just a month before her death. Annette knew about it, because we talked about it, but I doubt she ever saw it.)
McCauley, Deborah. “Nostra Aetate and the New Jewish-Christian Feminist Dialogue.” In Unanswered Questions: Theological Views of Jewish-Catholic Relations. Ed. Roger Brooks. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1988. Pp. 189-210.
FYI. I have found out since Annette's death that I, too, am Jewish (my father), coming from a long line of dynastic Court Jews who have been integral to the shaping of early American and U.S. history, and mercantile-era European history (much diplomatic intrigue between the English and Prussian courts) in the most astonishing of ways. This information has resolved key mysteries in my upbringing and so many family "secrets" to which I was not made privy while growing up but of which I was always acutely aware. Glad I finally got clued in. Wish I had Annette to tell it all to.
DATE: M2009.04.20
RE: Annette Daum
I'm Annette's "Christian" co-author of "Jewish-Christian Feminist Dialogue" (1983). Annette and I were very close for several years, beginning in 1980. In March 1989, I learned of her death in December 1988 in a most unfortunate way. I received an appeal for her memorial fund in the mail. I screamed and cried for more than three hours, the shock was that great and unexpected. I could not understand why no one contacted me to let me know. I was in Appalachia at the time, doing field research for my doct. diss. at Columbia. I've not been in touch with anyone close to or knowing Annette since then. Losing her still grieves me a lot. I guess that's why I'm writing this note to a stranger who's made the effort to pen something about her life.
I offer one correction or addition to your excellent short piece on Annette Daum. During our years together, she fought hard to be granted the official title of "Director" of Interreligious Affairs for UAHC, as was her male predecessor, instead of merely its "coordinator," a clear sexist slight for which Annette refused to stand. Near the end of her life, UAHC conferred on her the title of "Director," replete with appropriate salaried compensation. (Her dear Alfred, who adored her, probably has forgotten about the matter and so failed to make mention of his wife's prevailing.) Since the prolonged battle over her professional title mattered so much to Annette, please add it to her bio, if you can.
You might also want to add to her bibliography a piece I published in 1988. (It came out in November, unbeknownst to me just a month before her death. Annette knew about it, because we talked about it, but I doubt she ever saw it.)
McCauley, Deborah. “Nostra Aetate and the New Jewish-Christian Feminist Dialogue.” In Unanswered Questions: Theological Views of Jewish-Catholic Relations. Ed. Roger Brooks. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1988. Pp. 189-210.
FYI. I have found out since Annette's death that I, too, am Jewish (my father), coming from a long line of dynastic Court Jews who have been integral to the shaping of early American and U.S. history, and mercantile-era European history (much diplomatic intrigue between the English and Prussian courts) in the most astonishing of ways. This information has resolved key mysteries in my upbringing and so many family "secrets" to which I was not made privy while growing up but of which I was always acutely aware. Glad I finally got clued in. Wish I had Annette to tell it all to.
DVM