Henny Wekhart
Publisher/Editor
The editor of the Jewish Women's Literary Annual, Dr. Henny Wenkart, was born in Vienna and, as she described in the recent HBO documentary “50 Children,” fled to the United States as a child. She graduated from Pembroke College, Brown University, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with High Honors in philosophy. After earning the M.S. in journalism from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, she worked as an editor and producer for public radio WGBH Boston, and then earned the M.A. in philosophy from Radcliffe College and the Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University.
She taught expository writing and philosophy for 14 years at Harvard and later at Stern College, Yeshivah University.
Her book of poems, Love Poems of a Philanderer's Wife, has been translated into three languages and was a finalist for the Paterson Prize. She is the editor of the poetry anthology Sarah's Daughters Sing (KTAV), co-editor of the anthology Which Lilith (Jason Aronson). Her translation of Pauline Wengeroff's autobiography (University of Maryland Press) won a Jewish Book Prize. Her self-published phonic readers sold 600,000 copies.
Her poetry has appeared in Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Jewish Writing (University of Nebraska Press); Response, Confrontation, LIPS, Paterson Literary Review, AUFBAU, POETICA, Home Planet News.
The poetry workshop she teaches at the Jewish Women's Resource Center has been meeting for 25 years. She is the founding editor of the Jewish Women's Literary Annual, which has been appearing since 1994. Her articles on the philosophy of George Santayana appear in the Encyclopedia of American Philosophy, in Overheard in Seville and in other philosophical journals.
She is a Founding Member of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, the Santayana Society, Brown University Hillel, Harvard University Hillel, the Jewish Women's Archive and the Jewish Women's Research Center of the National Council of Jewish Women New York Section. She is the mother of two sons and a daughter, who have given her a wonderful son-in-law, two magnificent daughters-in-law, and 5 miraculous grandchildren.