Susan Weinberg

I am an artist, author and genealogist with a deep interest in Jewish heritage. This interest is reflected in my artwork and in my recent book We Spoke Jewish.

My travels have taken me to throughout Eastern Europe to family shtetls and archives.

10/20/2024

So we finally get to the part of moving that I really like. As an artist and a visual person, hanging artwork signifies that I’m home. I take great pleasure in my visual surroundings and the interaction of artwork with each other. It’s a bit like the stories of toys coming to life at night, these seemingly inanimate objects that converse. When it works, they have wonderful conversations, a bit like throwing a very successful party and I’m the host. Read more at

One of the first things we did to make the new space ours, was to put out a rug that I have had through two prior homes. Consistent with my ...

10/14/2024

There is a process to claiming a new space, to making it your own. We embraced that process by renovating, painting and re-carpeting our new home. So many decisions to make as we tried to picture what this space would ultimately look like. Read more at

We went through the purchase of our new home half sleepwalking. Were we really doing this? I couldn’t conceive of how our belongings would f...

10/01/2024

We’ve been immersed in a move which has taken over our lives. Moving is not for the faint of heart, at least after you’ve been in a home for many years with lots of storage space that absorbs all those unnecessary things that fill your life. It is a process with many elements, selecting a new home, renovating it to your taste, creating a home with artwork, and disposing of what you don’t need. I’m good at step three and atrocious at step four. We are however, very pleased with the outcome and love our new home. Read more at

It has been a quiet year for blog writing. Also reading, painting and genealogy research. Many of the activities that bring me pleasure were...

03/08/2024

I do a lot of speaking on genealogy topics and frequently speak about immigration as I find the liminal state between one state of being and another especially interesting. In keeping with the liminal nature of changing identities, I have moved into the subject of names which were particularly fluid for Jewish immigrants who had multiple names even before they came to the U.S. and tried on yet more identities. Read more at

For those involved in Jewish genealogy, the fluidity of given names often presents a brick wall. You can't find the record if you don't know...

01/07/2024

Each year I write a summary of books that spoke to me throughout the year. I often have a long list, but am hard-pressed to capture them many months later. My process is to write of the ones that had sufficient force to stay with me as I consider what gave them staying power. Read more at

Each year I write a summary of some of the books that spoke to me throughout the year. By the end of the year I have a long list, but I am o...

12/28/2023

This has been a tough year, an “annus horribilis” as once termed by Queen Elizabeth. It has been a year that encompassed losses of people who were dear to me. One expected, of which I have previously written, and one sudden and still unimaginable, the death of my sister. I remember when my parents reached an age where they were going to a lot of funerals. I still had enough naiveté to not think of it as in the realm of my experience, certainly not affecting the people I loved. My sister’s sudden passing was the death-knell of those illusions. And so I enter a new stage, shorn of parents and siblings, the solo keeper of the memories of my family of origin. The loss of a fellow memory keeper is just one of the many layers of what my sister’s death means for me. Read more at

It always begins with a phone call, those things that rock your world. My niece, brave soul, had taken on the task of passing on the news of...

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