Susannah Abel-Zucker

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Susannah Abel-Zucker is a senior at Northampton High School in Massachusetts. She is the technical director of her school's theater department, as well as the co-founder and head editor of Flood-Tide, its arts and literary magazine. An aspiring Yiddishist, she has studied at the YIVO Institute in New York and appeared onstage with the Valley Troupe, the Five College Consortium's Yiddish theater troupe. In her rapidly disappearing free time, she writes plays and poetry about Yiddish and queerness and history, plays the harp, reads Wikipedia articles, and makes art with her friends.

Blog Posts

Susannah Abel-Zucker Grace Paley Collage

The Walkers: Grace Paley, Broad City, My Mother, and Me

Susannah Abel-Zucker

My mother’s walking ritual, necessary for her personal life and her life as a writer to thrive, has a place in a larger legacy of women walking, talking, and writing.

Hand printed handkerchief

Communal Performance and Communal Identity

Susannah Abel-Zucker

I have never felt more Jewish than when I’ve been in a communal performance space.

Yiddish homework

Undzere mame-loshn: Feminist Yiddishisms

Susannah Abel-Zucker

Yiddishism is marked by its foremothers, like Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman and Adrienne Cooper, and the women who keep it alive today.

Topics: Jewish History
Miriam Borgenicht

Learning Reconciliation from My Great-Grandmother’s Poetry

Susannah Abel-Zucker

Having arguments with people you love and still being able to go on loving them is a necessary skill for effective activism.

Topics: Poetry, Activism

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Susannah Abel-Zucker." (Viewed on July 12, 2026) <https://jwa.org/blog/author/abel-zucker-susannah>.