In 2004 Ann Buffum and Sandy Gartner founded DAVAR, an ambitious oral history project about Jewish women in Vermont. Until they began their project, there existed no other collection of Vermont Jewish women's life stories."Our five-year odyssey to collect oral histories of Jewish women in Vermont has take n us on highways and back roads across the state. The women we have interviewed are as diverse as the terrain. Their journeys have been as varied as escaping the Nazis in 1940 and teaching labor organizing in China in 2009. Some women have chosen paths closer to home,w ith their baking, pottery and music. Others are doctors, farmers and community volunteers. Their stories and dreams are connected by the thread of tikkun olam, 'repairing the world', which is a foundation of Jewish ethics." --Ann and Sandy
In 2009 a gallery exhibit, public educational programs and this volume have brought these stories to life.
