On Rapoport’s introduction to the richness and pluralism of Jewish life in New York

(3 min)

Tobi on the importance of the visual in Judaism

(6:43 min)

Sense of heritage; responsibility to one’s ancestors

(8:08 min)

Selections from three of Rapoport’s publications, chosen by the author

The attached document brings together brief selections from Rapoport’s House on the River: A Summer Journey (2004), from her contributions to Objects of the Spirit: Ritual and the Art of Tobi Kahn by Emily D. Bilski (2004), and from A Woman’s Book of Grieving (1994).

House on the River: A Summer Journey

(Harmony Books/Crown, 2004)
Nominated for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir and awarded a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts

A Woman’s Book of Grieving

(William Morrow, 1994)
Prose poems

Preparing for Sabbath

(William Morrow, 1981)
Nominated for the Books in Canada Award for First Novels

Songs and meditations by Nessa Rapoport in Tobi Kahn: Sacred Spaces for the 21st Century

Edited by Ena Giurescu Heller (Museum of Biblical Art; D. Giles, 2009)

Meditations by Nessa Rapoport in Objects of the Spirit: Ritual and the Art of Tobi Kahn

Emily Bilsky (Hudson Hills Press; Avoda Institute, 2004)

The Schocken Book of Contemporary Jewish Fiction

edited by Nessa Rapoport and Ted Solotaroff (Schocken Books, 1996).
Includes short story by Rapoport, “The Woman Who Lost Her Names”

Revson Foundation

Rapoport is a senior program officer at the Charles H. Revson Foundation, where she has worked since 2005. This foundation was founded in 1956 as a vehicle for charitable giving and focuses on North American Jewish life and Israel.

“Going Home,” Jewish World Review, 1999

“Heirlooms of Memory,” Faith.com, 1999

“Morning Praise,” Faith.com, 1999