Jewish Women’s Voices Seminar: Writing about Vanishing Cultures and Rarely Told Stories: Samantha Ellis on ‘Chopping Onions on My Heart’

Samantha Ellis discusses her book, 'Chopping Onions on My Heart', exploring themes of cultural erasure, language loss, and inherited family history.

The seminar examines what it means to inherit a language and culture that is disappearing, focusing on the history of Iraqi Jewry. Ellis draws on family interviews and historical sources to discuss how life-writing can recover connections to histories disrupted by displacement. Dr Aviva Dautch will introduce and moderate the discussion.