Poetic Obituaries: One of its first grants was

to a young Chicago activist named Barack Obama.

At the time of her death, [Lois] Roisman was a research associate at the Brandeis Women's Institute at Brandeis
University in Waltham, Mass., and was completing a series of poems she described as a personal dialogue with the tales of the Chasidim.

from JTA Breaking News: Playwright Roisman dead at 70

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