Forgive Us Our Trespasses: A Memoir of a Jewish Teacher in a Catholic School

by Diane Gensler

Overview

Have you ever been the odd man out? A different breed? A fish out of water? Join the author as she navigates foreign territory as the only Jewish person teaching in a Catholic school. Experience the joy and memorable moments as well as the sting of anti-Semitism and ignorance. Despite the challenges, she discovers that the job was a blessing in disguise and fate may have played a hand in her school placement.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781627202831
Publisher:	Apprentice House
Publication date:	10/01/2020
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.58(d)

About the Author

Diane Gensler is a certified English and special education teacher. In addition to teaching in public and private schools, she developed educational software, tutored online and wrote and managed online curriculum. She is a Maryland Writing Project Teacher Consultant and a mentor. A native Baltimorean and mother of three, she is an active member of multiple Parent Teacher Associations, the Baltimore Jewish Writers Guild, the Jewish Genealogy Society of Maryland and other clubs and organizations.

Editorial Reviews

“This is a sweet, insightful account of the life of a school teacher who’s simultaneously going through both professional and cultural challenges and approaches the new job with an open mind and an open heart. It’s nicely written and well observed, and I felt as if I were going through the daily life in a Baltimore classroom with all of its challenges and little pleasures and large frustrations.”

—Michael Olesker, former Baltimore Sun columnist and WJZ-TV commentator, Michael Olesker is the author of six books. His most recent, Front Stoops in the Fifties: Baltimore Legends Come of Age, was reissued in paperback by the Johns Hopkins University Press

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