Rosie Rosenzweig
Areas of Expertise
The Jewish-Buddhist Phenomenon; Poetry; Jewish Feminism and Ritual; Women’s Creative Process; MotherArt
Email: rrosenzweig@brandeis.edu
Current Project
After interviewing women artists for eight years about their creativity, it is time to begin a preliminary analysis. The question of transformation is central as is the qualities of the term “flow.” Some interesting common themes have surfaced. I will begin with a journal article before planning the form of a book on this subject of women’s creativity.
Biography
Her poetry volume called Language is a Ladder is presently seeking a publisher. Subsequently she founded and hosted the Jewish Poetry Festival for a decade featuring luminaries like Ruth Whitman, Marge Piercy, and the poet laureate Robert Pinsky, the subject of one of her articles in the Forward. Rosenzweig’s interpretations of Biblical women appear in Reading Between the Lines, All the Women Followed Her, and an anthology on Deborah. Her essays have appeared in Genesis 2, Ethical Wills, Making the Jewish Journey from Mid-life through the Elder Years, and the Forward. She has been interviewing artists in various media and hosting a yearly panel at the Brandeis Rose Art Museum on the creative process in an effort to understand the psychological and spiritual state of consciousness present at the moment of creation. Women’s Intergenerational issues have been a focus of her work and a recently completed a play, “Myths and Ms.”
Education
M.A., Indiana University
B.A., Indiana University
Representative Publications
Rosenzweig, Rosie. “Serach bat Asher.” Praise Her Works: Conversations with Biblical Women. Ed. Penina Adelman. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 2005.
Rosenzweig, Rosie. A Jewish Mother in Shangri-La. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1998.
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