The Jewish Daughter Diaries by Rachel Ament

“But inside these extremes is uncontainable love.” “I think Jewish mothers tend to live in the extremes,” explains Ament. “Most of the writers had never heard of me before! But they insisted they had to be in the collection, that their mom was the absolute craziest.”įrom mothers who impersonate their daughters on JDate to mothers who send trays of blintzes to strangers when they hear they’re sick, the stories in Ament’s book, “The Jewish Daughter Diaries: True Stories of Being Loved Too Much by Our Moms,” are full of humor and heart, brimming over with unabashed, uninhibited, fierce motherly love. “The response was fantastic,” she recalls.

The writer and Kentucky native always loved hearing and telling stories about Jewish moms, and so she emailed her favorite female Jewish writers and entertainers, asking if they would be willing to share. They come in a variety of shades and colors: the over-feeding mother, the worrywart mother, the “When will you settle down with a nice Jewish doctor and give me grandchildren?” mother, the guiltmeister extraordinaire. It seems everybody has one - a Jewish Mother anecdote. And if you’re going to go skydiving, bungee jumping or otherwise deface the face she gave you, don’t tell her about it until you’re safely on solid ground. Always keep your first-aid cabinet well stocked … with matzoh ball soup, preferably a batch she made from scratch, froze and dated for you. Sourcebooks 208 pgs., $14.99.įirst, a few ground rules. ‘The Jewish Daughter Diaries: True Stories of Being Loved Too Much by Our Moms’Įdited by Rachel Ament.

The Jewish Daughter Diaries by Rachel Ament