Judy Batalion

Judy Batalion is the New York Times bestselling author of The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos, which won a National Jewish Book Award, as well as White Walls: A Memoir About Motherhood, Daughterhood, and the Mess in Between.

My First Yizkor
After my mother died, I stopped writing. I couldn’t start again until I understood what loss I was mourning.
byJudy Batalion
The Fighting Women of the Warsaw Ghetto
An excerpt from a new book about women in the resistance during WWII
byJudy Batalion
Call It Sleepless
When my daughter wouldn’t sleep through the night, I wondered: Was this a medical issue, or a psychological problem she’d inherited from my family?
byJudy Batalion
The Helicopter Shrink
When I was pregnant, my therapist became a maternal figure for me—and ultimately helped me appreciate my own mother in an unexpected way
byJudy Batalion
The Festival of Cleaning
Whether you’re a hoarder or a neat freak, Passover gives families a chance to get rid of the mess—together
byJudy Batalion
Bubbe vs. Bubbe
My boyfriend’s proper English grandmother was nothing like the fast-walking, loud-talking grandmother I’d grown up with—or was she?
byJudy Batalion
My Husband Wanted to Break the Fast Early and I Didn’t
A case of how doing what seems wrong can also be what’s right
byJudy Batalion