Make a Donation to the Lyn Lifshin Library Fund

The Lyn Lifshin Library Fund supports Havurah’s vibrant adult programming and the preservation of the Lyn Lifshin Library.

As a 501(c)3 tax exempt non profit organization, Havurah relies on donations to maintain our goal of providing educational, spiritual, and social programs for our community.

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By Mail. Send your donation, along with a Donation Form to the address below. Download our donation form here.

Havurah
PO Box 823
56 North Pleasant Street
Middlebury, Vermont 05753

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Lyn Lifshin (1942 – 2019)

Lyn Lifshin was one of Frieda Lazarus’s two daughters. During Lyn’s childhood she, her mother and her sister Joy lived in the Lazarus home at 56 North Pleasant Street. She became one of the most widely published American contemporary poets. A documentary film, “Lyn Lifshin: Not Made of Glass,” describes her emergence as an early feminist poet. Author of more than 130 books and editor of four anthologies of women writers, she taught poetry at the University of Rochester, Antioch, and Colorado Mountain College.

She passed away in Vienna, VA on December 9, 2019, at the home of her life partner Albert Jordan. In honor of Lyn’s many happy memories at the Lazarus home, he made a gift to Havurah in 2023, including many of Lyn’s published books of poetry and other Lazarus Family memorabilia. In gratitude, Havurah named the upstairs library The Lyn Lifshin Library.