Miriam Lipschutz Yevick began writing letters to her two-month-old granddaughter, Ariela, in 1985, and continued right through to Ariela's wedding in 2006 and her motherhood in 2008. In sharing her thoughts, her values, her self-awareness, and her rapturous relationship with art and with nature, Yevick reveals the inner life of a woman of science, of passion, and of deep philosophical insight. A Testament to Ariela is a testament about the trials of being a child refugee from Nazi-occupied Holland and Belgium; about the thrill and sacrifice of becoming the fifth woman in history to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics from MIT; about the soulfulness of being a spiritually sensitive socialist and a highly cultured human being. "A Testament for Ariela is for grandmothers and granddaughters, for seniors and adolescents and mothers-to-be, and for all women who hope to create a better world for their children and grandchildren and for future generations. These letters to my granddaughter, Ariela, were written in the hope that my experiences over a lifetime of eighty-seven years as a mathematician, a scholar and writer, a leftist and activist, a mother and grandmother might inspire and sustain her in the struggles that await her in life." - from the Preface "A fascinating and moving account of Jewish family life and Miriam Yevick's own quests as woman and intellectual over many decades of the troubled 20th century. Letters written to her granddaughter Ariela record the delights and worries of babyhood and parenting, and also introduce Ariela to the many strands of her far-flung family and to the challenges facing her grandmother as she sought to combine her own parenting in the 1950s with graduate study in physics and mathematics. There is also a darker tale of her family's escape from the advancing armies of the Nazies. ...Throughout, Miriam Yevick's voice is warm and frank, always hopeful, morally engaged, and generous." - Natalie Zemon Davis, author of The Return of Martin Guerre

A Testament for Ariela

Miriam Lipschutz Yevick

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A Testament for Ariela