Creator Bio
Corie Adjmi
b. 1960s
Corie Adjmi was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Syrian Jewish parents. When she was sixteen, her family moved from their Reform Jewish community in Louisiana to an Orthodox Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn, an experience that influenced her novel The Marriage Box. Adjmi has written numerous essays and short stories. Her collection Life and Other Shortcomings was published in 2020. She also contributed to the 2024 anthology On Being Jewish Now. In addition to her writing, Adjmi is the executive producer of the films A Photographic Memory (2024) and Horsegirls (2025). She lives and works in New York City.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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A Syrian Jewish Thanksgiving: Ham and kibbeh
A Syrian Jewish family outside of the close-knit Syrian Jewish community of Brooklyn evaluates their relationship to tradition through food.