By The River: Women's Voices in Jewish Stories

2007 Parent's Choice Recommended award winner!

Cindy Rivka Marshall (left) Susan Robbins (right)

In these new twists on traditional Jewish folktales and midrashim, award-winning storyteller Cindy Rivka Marshall tells stories that speak from women’s hearts and minds.

In an exciting creative collaboration with Libana's Artistic Director, Susan Robbins, these magical, inspiring, and entertaining stories create strong role models for girls and women of all backgrounds.

Susan Robbins accompanies the stories with sensitive improvisations on the hammered dulcimer, psaltery, oud, accordion and percussion that enhance the mood of each tale being told, and create musical atmospheres in which to experience the story.

Cindy Rivka Marshall's critically acclaimed first recording, Challah and Latkes: Stories for Shabbat and Hanukkah, won a Storytelling World Honor Award and a National Parenting Publications Award. The folktales and original stories she tells hold universal lessons, and her performances resonate with a sense of wonder and respect for all. Her entertaining programs stimulate an appreciation of the diverse cultures that have given us a rich legacy of fables and folktales.

She has performed since 1989 throughout New England at festivals, conferences, schools, libraries, synagogues, senior residences, and for community groups. Notable appearances include:

• National Storytelling Network Conference, Denver, CO
• Children’s Museum of Maine, Portland, ME
• Three Apples Storytelling Festival, Harvard, MA
• First Light Festival, Brookline, MA
• Museum of Science, Boston, MA
• Jewish Women International / Hadassah Conference, Boston, MA
• Conference on Alternatives in Jewish Education(CAJE), OH and NY
• WGBH-FM live broadcast, Boston, “A Folk Heritage”
• WUMB-FM, Boston, “Live at Noon”
• WAMC-FM, Albany, NY, “Rachel’s Place”

Currently, Cindy Rivka serves as the co-chair of the Jewish Storytelling Coalition of New England and is a member of the Board of Directors of the League for the Advancement of New England Storytelling (LANES).
Throughout the 1980’s, Cindy Rivka worked as a video artist-in-residence in public schools all over eastern Massachusetts and produced many award-winning films: A Life of Song , A portrait of Yiddish folksinger Ruth Rubin, and Key Changes , a portrait of jazz singer Lisa Thorson.

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