It's sad that letterwriting is now seen as a chore! Receiving a handwritten letter was a great feeling when I was younger. That's why I always sent postcards to my kids when I traveled, so they can feel the same excitement.
I am a relatively new member to SubStack and am happy to have stumbled across your page and work, because I am not new to writing hand written letters. I traveled the world for 10 years semi-constantly and wrote and mailed letters to a pen pal from nearly every page of my passport. I compiled and curated those letters into a book called Paper Planes, and I would love to send you a copy of one. I imagine that with you being constantly in motion it may be hard for a physical book to catch up with you, but I genuinely think that we have shared many thoughts over the years and would love to connect with you human to human.
If there is a way for a book to reach you, please let me know I would be honored to share a copy.
Hola Jordan, I read your wonderful book and enjoyed every page of your adventures in chasing down your roots in Argentina, and the migrations prior to that. I was born in Havana, as were my parents. My grandparents fled to Cuba just before WWII from Warsaw and Belarus. I was raised in Brooklyn and went to school with many Syrian Jews, but. I didn’t know that there were some who may have had roots in Argentina. I too was fascinated by my family history and visited Cuba twice when it was legally feasible. There is a historical fiction book published last May, ‘Incident at San Miguel’, written by award winning author AJ Sidransky, recounting my family’s experience living in Cuba until we emigrated to the US as refugees in 1962. I wrote the foreword and the author interviewed me and my parents and many other Cuban Jews at length.. I’d love to connect with you as I have with other writers about their roots including Ruth Behar. I just watched your short talk on zoom via Jewish Renaissance.
PS I also greatly value letter writing and have held on to personal aerogrammes, letters and postcards sent to me. I continue to journal and handwrite, and use snail mail!
It's sad that letterwriting is now seen as a chore! Receiving a handwritten letter was a great feeling when I was younger. That's why I always sent postcards to my kids when I traveled, so they can feel the same excitement.
Dear Jordan,
I am a relatively new member to SubStack and am happy to have stumbled across your page and work, because I am not new to writing hand written letters. I traveled the world for 10 years semi-constantly and wrote and mailed letters to a pen pal from nearly every page of my passport. I compiled and curated those letters into a book called Paper Planes, and I would love to send you a copy of one. I imagine that with you being constantly in motion it may be hard for a physical book to catch up with you, but I genuinely think that we have shared many thoughts over the years and would love to connect with you human to human.
If there is a way for a book to reach you, please let me know I would be honored to share a copy.
Sincerely,
Ry
Hola Jordan, I read your wonderful book and enjoyed every page of your adventures in chasing down your roots in Argentina, and the migrations prior to that. I was born in Havana, as were my parents. My grandparents fled to Cuba just before WWII from Warsaw and Belarus. I was raised in Brooklyn and went to school with many Syrian Jews, but. I didn’t know that there were some who may have had roots in Argentina. I too was fascinated by my family history and visited Cuba twice when it was legally feasible. There is a historical fiction book published last May, ‘Incident at San Miguel’, written by award winning author AJ Sidransky, recounting my family’s experience living in Cuba until we emigrated to the US as refugees in 1962. I wrote the foreword and the author interviewed me and my parents and many other Cuban Jews at length.. I’d love to connect with you as I have with other writers about their roots including Ruth Behar. I just watched your short talk on zoom via Jewish Renaissance.
PS I also greatly value letter writing and have held on to personal aerogrammes, letters and postcards sent to me. I continue to journal and handwrite, and use snail mail!