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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe Special Collections Research Center<\/a> celebrates Ms. Terranova\u2019s life and work with a pop-up exhibit in the reading room in Charles LIbrary. The exhibit, up for the month of October, presents a small sampling of material from her papers, which she donated to the Libraries in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n –Margery Sly, Director, SCRC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Elaine Terranova grew up in Philadelphia, the daughter of Nathan and Sadie Goldstein, and studied at Temple University, graduating in 1961 with a bachelor’s degree in English. While working as a manuscript editor for J. B. Lippincott & Co., she attended Vermont’s Goddard College, earning a master’s degree in 1977. Her career shifted from editing … Continue reading The Diamond Cutter’s Daughter<\/span>
On September 20, 2022, Temple Libraries was pleased to host a reading by Ms. Terranova, followed by a conversation between her and Rebecca Alpert, professor of religion emerita at Temple. Alpert was was among the first women in America ordained as a rabbi, at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 1976. Her primary field of study is American Judaism in the twentieth century, focusing sports, race, and sexuality. View<\/a> a video of that program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On October 6, Temple University Libraries Book Club is discussing her memoir The Diamond Cutter\u2019s Daughter<\/em>, Princeton, NJ: Ragged Sky Press, 2021, about growing up in Philadelphia. <\/p>\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n