Eszter Margit, Founder and Director
Patricia Eszter Margit is a cultural manager, writer, journalist, PR expert and community organizer originally from Hungary. She is currently working at the 92Y. Her writings have appeared at JTA, Jerusalem Report, Nepszabadsag (Hungarian daily), Szombat, EJewishPhilantrophy, Marie Claire, ELLE magazines and edited the Budapest Times. She worked for the national radio as well as a pirate station, sang in a feminist punk rock band and a classical choir, advised women's NGOs on media advocacy and is a founding board member of the Hungarian National Committee for UN Women. She played leadership roles at outstanding social justice and spiritual organizations, such as the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and Romemu.
Eszter acquired her Jewish studies background in pluralistic institutions such as Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, Yeshivat Simchat Shlomo and the Conservative Yeshiva as a Legacy Heritage Fellow. Recently she has worked with Storahtelling, Jewish Art Now, and the Carlebach Shul as advisor. She has an MPA from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and had been a Woolrich fellow at Columbia University's Writing Department.
Her first novel, The Jewish Bride, was published in 2009 in Budapest in Hungarian and sold out in three months. It was well received at the Hungarian National Book Fair and got significant attention in the Hungarian media, it was widely recommended in the Jewish community, but other publications also felt that it spoke to their readers.
Eszter acquired her Jewish studies background in pluralistic institutions such as Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, Yeshivat Simchat Shlomo and the Conservative Yeshiva as a Legacy Heritage Fellow. Recently she has worked with Storahtelling, Jewish Art Now, and the Carlebach Shul as advisor. She has an MPA from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and had been a Woolrich fellow at Columbia University's Writing Department.
Her first novel, The Jewish Bride, was published in 2009 in Budapest in Hungarian and sold out in three months. It was well received at the Hungarian National Book Fair and got significant attention in the Hungarian media, it was widely recommended in the Jewish community, but other publications also felt that it spoke to their readers.
