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Intrepid Pioneers & Creating a Storm: A Conversation with Isabelle Seddon

JL;DR SUMMARY Isabelle Seddon, a British tour guide and author, discusses her journey from an Orthodox Jewish upbringing in Plymouth to her achievements in exploring Jewish women's roles in public life and the arts. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish HistoryJewish CommunityZionismFeminismJewish WomenTheaterArtLiteratureCounselingIsabelle Seddon

Places mentioned

London, United Kingdom
"Now 70, Isabelle lives in Londons chic Hampstead neighborhood."
Jerusalem, Israel
"Barbara Gingold, her friend of almost half a century, interviewed Isabelle in London and via Zoom from Jerusalem in September."
Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom
"Unlike most British Jews Ive ever met, you came not from the very Jewish areas of Northwest London, but Plymouth, on the southern coast of England."
Bournemouth, Dorset, United Kingdom
"When I was 14, my family moved to Bournemouth, which had a reasonable Jewish community."
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"In 1981 you wed Jonathan Broido, whose mother Ethel founded the well-respected Gordon Art Gallery in Tel Aviv."

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