'Write Your Story' Program

The 'Write Your Story' program is a well known cultural activity of Makor Library. Developed and co-ordinated by Julie Meadows, the program offers support for people to write their autobiographies, through classes and editorial advice, The memoirs that have resulted were written primarily for the children and grandchildren of the authors but it soon became apparent that they were attracting a wider audience.

The 'Write Your Story' publications are now part of a growing archive, the Loti and Victor Smorgon archive, housed at Makor, that will furnish future readers and scholars with primary-source material on the social history of the Melbourne Jewish Community. Some of our writers are third-generation Australians but the majority are migrants or children of migrants. Whether the stories start in the 1880s, the 1930s or post-1945, they offer valuable information to future generations about the first-comers and the structures they built.

From left: Elfie Rosenberg, Helen Max, Tess Schwarz at the launch of their books

From left: Garry Fabian, Myra Fisher, Paulette Goldberg, Eva Marks

 

'Write Your Story' Classes

You don't have to be a 'writer' yourself to write your story for your children, grandchildren, or yourself in a warm and encouraging atmosphere. Makor offers expert guidance with writing, editing and publication. A great range of backgrounds and experiences of those who make up our Community is brought to life in our weekly writing sessions.

Classes run every Wednesday afternoon. Cost is $11 or $7.70 concession (including GST). For further information contact Leonie Fleiszig on 9272 5611.

 

 

Click here to read an extract from the writings of Kitia Altman, one of our past class members.

''Write Your Story' Publications

Click to open the Write Your Story booklist with all publications as of September 2007 (pdf document);

To print out only the pricelist and order form click here.

Please mail or fax your order to Makor Library and we will post the books to your address.

   
Author Click on a book cover below or check the booklist for individual book information. Title Price
 

Memory Guide My Hand Volume 4

An Anthology of life stories by members of the Melbourne Jewish Community from the former Soviet Union

$35
 

Memory Guide My Hand Volume 3

An Anthology of Autobiographic Writings by Members of the Melbourne Jewish Community

$30

 

Memory Guide My Hand Volume 2

An Anthology of Autobiographic Writings by Members of the Melbourne Jewish Community

N/A
 

Memory Guide My Hand - Volume 1

An Anthology of Autobiographic Writings by Members of the Melbourne Jewish Community

N/A
Ajzen, Chaim

Chaim Ajzen Remembers $20

Ajzner, Hania

Hania's War

$25

Altman, Kitia

Memories Of Ordinary People

For those who have no one to remember them

 

$35

Arnstein, Lenke

Recurring Dreams

$25

Barnett,Mel

Arnaff Good f'r a Dalston Boy

An East London Childhood

$25
Beckwith, Doreen

Full Circle

The Story of a Chained Woman

$25

Benjamin, Sydney A.B.

A Full House

$22

Birner, John

Changing Landscapes

The story of my formative years

N/A

Boas, Bernard A. OAM

The Five Books Of Boas

 

$25

Buckner, Ille

 

Starts and Pauses

 

N/A

Censor, Maria

Letters To My Mother

$20

Cherny, Sylvia

 

Who is Sylvia?

 

N/A

Cooper, Leo

 

The Long Road to the Lucky Country

 

$28

Ekstein, Elka

Chutzpe un Draystkayt

A teenager with chutzpah and teneacity in the Holocaust

 

$20

Eidelson, Meyer

Books, Tanks and Radios

Stories from a Family of Survivors

$20

Eisfelder, Horst ‘Peter’

Chinese Exile

My Years in Shanghai and Nanking

$25

Erlanger, Arnold

Choose Life

$25

Fabian, Garry

A Look Back Over My Shoulder

$22

Fisher, Myra

Cossacks, Cockneys And Colonials

$25

Fleiszig, Laszlo and Katalin

Interesting Times

Our journey from downtrodden to down under

 

 

N/A

Friedmann, Jakob

 

Reluctant soldier

a Jewish Partisan’s Story

 

$25

Gardner, Helen

My Mother's Child

$27.50

Ginzburg, George

A Will to Live

Autobiography

$35

Goldberg, Paulette

Just Think It Never Happened

$25

Goldrei, Naomi

The Champions Of My Childhood

$25

Goldstein, Guta

There Will Be Tomorrow

$25

Gould, Lucy

Empty Corners

$22

Gray, Gary

A Spoonful of Soup: and Other Stories

$25

Grinblat, Ian

Nachum Zalman Gurewicz: a life

$25

Gust, Itzhak

 

Such Was Life

 

$28

Haberfeld, Lusia

Lauferin

The Runner Of Birkenau

$25

Harari, Mayer

Second Exodus

$25

Jacobs, Anne

Alien Roots

A German Jewish girlhood from belonging to exile

 

$30

Jawary, Sabiha

Baghdad I Remember

N/A

Kay, David as told to Ian Grinblat

 

Tough Kid

Surviving Siberia in Style

 

$25