Chevra haChachamot<p>A new memoir, ‘The Punk Rock Queen of the Jews,’ explores traumatic teenage years in Hasidic Crown Heights, By Julia Gergely July 8, 2024</p><p>"...Rossi told the story of her rise through New York’s culinary scene in the 1980s in her 1st memoir, called “The Raging Skillet,” in 2015:</p><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-raging-skillet-the-true-life-story-of-chef-rossi-rossi/10414879" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookshop.org/p/books/the-ragin</span><span class="invisible">g-skillet-the-true-life-story-of-chef-rossi-rossi/10414879</span></a></p><p>...Her 2nd memoir is more of a prequel than a follow-up. In “The Punk Rock Queen of the Jews,” released earlier this year, Rossi digs into everything that came before: specifically, the two years she lived in Crown Heights as a teenager. The book narrates what she describes as the misogyny, assault & trauma she experienced there. These experiences would shape the rest of her life, inspiring her to become a chef & come out as lesbian:</p><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-punk-rock-queen-of-the-jews-a-memoir-rossi/20207140" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookshop.org/p/books/the-punk-</span><span class="invisible">rock-queen-of-the-jews-a-memoir-rossi/20207140</span></a> </p><p>“It is the most unusual ‘How I Came to New York’ story, which I would tell when I was a starving artist in the 1980s..."</p><p><a href="https://www.jta.org/2024/07/08/ny/a-new-memoir-the-punk-rock-queen-of-the-jews-explores-traumatic-teenage-years-in-hasidic-crown-heights" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">jta.org/2024/07/08/ny/a-new-me</span><span class="invisible">moir-the-punk-rock-queen-of-the-jews-explores-traumatic-teenage-years-in-hasidic-crown-heights</span></a></p><p><a href="https://babka.social/tags/Mazeldon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mazeldon</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewniverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewniverse</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/JFedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JFedi</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/JewishWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JewishWomen</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/CrownHeights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CrownHeights</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Judaism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Judaism</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/JewishFood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JewishFood</span></a></p>