Four Generations Meyer-Saltzman-Mishli 1989

Truths My Mother Taught Me

30 July 2010
I did not write this post. The title's "Mother" is my grandmother, Ruth Radman Meyer; "Me" is my mother, Bernice Meyer Saltzman. My mother wrote and delivered this speech in February 1995. Fifteen years later, I am still impressed and inspired every time I read it. This tribute to my grandmother is also a testament to my mother's outstanding abilities as a scholar, writer and parent. I am publishing it this week to honor my mother's memory on her 10th yahrzeit (anniversary of her death). Truths My Mother Taught Me Presented by Bernice Meyer Saltzmanto the Jewish Women's Club of Richmond VATuesday, February 28, 1995 Bernice Meyer Saltzman 1994 One of the blessings of being sixty-something is that you are in the position of learning from people both older and younger than you. Recently the young 39-year-old Rabbi Simeon Glaser of…
Ruth Radman and Leonard Meyer, 1926 (Engaged)

The Courtship of Ruth Radman and Leonard Meyer

29 October 2009
My grandmother's diary takes us into the world of my grandparents in Richmond, Virginia, in 1925. It is amazing to read the teenage Ruth’s words, to sense her consuming love for Leonard as well as the routine of her daily life nearly a century ago. More astounding are entries in which Ruth unknowingly provides glimpses of events and personalities that eventually evolved into memorable episodes and figures in the Radman-Meyer family history.