Kitty Hoffman, at The Blogs

May 29, 2023, 5:45 AM

In the flood of congratulatory articles celebrating Israel’s 75th birthday, it's been odd and surprising to encounter one side of the language debate that filled my childhood home -- Yiddish (my leftist father) vs Hebrew (my right-wing Zionist mother)...

Apr 21, 2023, 8:39 AM

Images of Survivors

On Yom Hashoa a friend, also 2G, wrote: What strikes me on this day is the simple heroism of those that survived against all odds, in such dreadful conditions. We owe them our lives, our children's lives, grandchildren's lives -...

Mar 28, 2023, 7:57 AM

It Feels Like Redemption

We who don’t live in Israel have been stuck to our social media as though with velcro. As I write this, an immediate danger has been averted. The crisis, which feels existential, continues. We continue to wait, we continue to...

Jun 7, 2021, 7:23 AM

You haven’t been paying attention

In the last month or so, life online has been emotionally turbulent and painful. Like you, I’ve unfriended and even blocked a number of lifelong friends. My social media world is filled with laments by Jews long active in...

Apr 21, 2020, 6:27 AM

We were made for this time

My childhood memories are of waking to my mother’s terrified screams – her nightmares that returned again and again to the terrors she’d lived before I was born. And of small Yizkor services in empty cemeteries, where a handful...

About Me

Kitty Hoffman has lived in several cities and travelled the globe. Conceived in a refugee camp in Germany, born in Norway, and raised in Montreal, she has a deep interest in identity, exile, and spirit. Her award-winning writing has appeared in literary anthologies and journals including The New Quarterly, Boulevard, The Commons, and Prism. A spiritual director in Montreal, she is presently working on a book of literary nonfiction about her medieval ancestor, the father of European kabbalah, and her childhood among Holocaust survivors.