Chevra haChachamot on Nostr: A new memoir, ‘The Punk Rock Queen of the Jews,’ explores traumatic teenage years ...
A new memoir, ‘The Punk Rock Queen of the Jews,’ explores traumatic teenage years in Hasidic Crown Heights, By Julia Gergely July 8, 2024
"...Rossi told the story of her rise through New York’s culinary scene in the 1980s in her 1st memoir, called “The Raging Skillet,” in 2015:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-raging-skillet-the-true-life-story-of-chef-rossi-rossi/10414879
...Her 2nd memoir is more of a prequel than a follow-up. In “The Punk Rock Queen of the Jews,” released earlier this year, Rossi digs into everything that came before: specifically, the two years she lived in Crown Heights as a teenager. The book narrates what she describes as the misogyny, assault & trauma she experienced there. These experiences would shape the rest of her life, inspiring her to become a chef & come out as lesbian:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-punk-rock-queen-of-the-jews-a-memoir-rossi/20207140
“It is the most unusual ‘How I Came to New York’ story, which I would tell when I was a starving artist in the 1980s..."
https://www.jta.org/2024/07/08/ny/a-new-memoir-the-punk-rock-queen-of-the-jews-explores-traumatic-teenage-years-in-hasidic-crown-heights
#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #JFedi #JewishWomen #CrownHeights #Jewish #Judaism #JewishFood
"...Rossi told the story of her rise through New York’s culinary scene in the 1980s in her 1st memoir, called “The Raging Skillet,” in 2015:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-raging-skillet-the-true-life-story-of-chef-rossi-rossi/10414879
...Her 2nd memoir is more of a prequel than a follow-up. In “The Punk Rock Queen of the Jews,” released earlier this year, Rossi digs into everything that came before: specifically, the two years she lived in Crown Heights as a teenager. The book narrates what she describes as the misogyny, assault & trauma she experienced there. These experiences would shape the rest of her life, inspiring her to become a chef & come out as lesbian:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-punk-rock-queen-of-the-jews-a-memoir-rossi/20207140
“It is the most unusual ‘How I Came to New York’ story, which I would tell when I was a starving artist in the 1980s..."
https://www.jta.org/2024/07/08/ny/a-new-memoir-the-punk-rock-queen-of-the-jews-explores-traumatic-teenage-years-in-hasidic-crown-heights
#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #JFedi #JewishWomen #CrownHeights #Jewish #Judaism #JewishFood