Books by Laurie S. Sherman
Ten books in print. More arriving through 2026 and 2027. Plays. Poetry. Monologues. Prayer books. Ritual theater. Psychology. Memoir. A body of work that refuses to be categorized.
HINENI: In Sarah's Tent
A complete ritual in which women across Jewish history step forward to reverse their own erasure. Immersive, participatory, luminous. Not a book to read once — a ritual to enter again and again.
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HINENI: Voices — Monologues of Presence
More than seventy Jewish women across time — biblical figures, thinkers, rebels, artists, activists — each speaking once, in full presence. For performance, for reading, for witnessing.
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HINENI: Ritual — How to Rite
A disciplined framework for creating meaningful ritual through space, gesture, silence, and shared participation. For facilitators, clergy, artists, and educators.
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KNOT.: A Ritual Play in Five Movements
A braided work of voice, memory, and meaning — part ritual text, part dramatic meditation, part feminist midrash. Written to be performed, read, and returned to.
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KNOT.: Holding Inherited Conflict Without Annihilation
A book about why solutions keep failing. Sherman examines the moral and psychological pressure fields that collapse complexity into certainty, spectacle, and erasure.
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KNOT.: A Learning Edition
An accessible companion to KNOT. — designed for classrooms, communities, and book groups. Structured for reflection, dialogue, and practice.
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Kol Isha: The Women Speak
A sacred ritual text of Jewish women's voices — foremothers, prophets, rebels, and seekers — designed to be read aloud in community.
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In Sarah's Tent: The Women Speak
A sacred ritual play that gathers women across time — biblical, historical, legendary, and modern — into a single luminous conversation through monologue and song.
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Scapegoat: Holding Fear Without Sacrifice
A Jewish work of moral inquiry and ritual imagination. Sherman examines how fear becomes projection, and how communities survive by expelling what they cannot hold within themselves.
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She Who Dwells in Spirit
A Shekhinah-centered prayerbook offering blessings for courage, healing, gratitude, and renewal — rooted in feminine Jewish imagery and contemporary spiritual life.
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Ten Feet
A new intergenerational play about distance, welcome, and what we owe each other. Two generations. One stage. One essential conversation.
Essential Narrative
What disappears first? An intergenerational play for two generations on one stage. About memory, inheritance, and the stories we cannot afford to lose.
The Last Five Minutes
A collection of one-act plays. Each one ends in the last five minutes — the moment when everything that has been unsaid must be said.
We Resist! We Refuse!
A play of women's voices across time — women who said no when the world demanded yes. Fierce, necessary, and alive.
The Archivist
What do we keep? What do we let go? A play about the weight of memory, the ethics of preservation, and what it means to be the last one who remembers.
The Miriam Syndrome
The pattern as old as power itself — the effective woman brought in to transform, then erased. A rigorous and necessary examination of how institutions consume the women who save them.
A Lyricist After Dachau
A lyric essay in memory and witness — a daughter's portrait of her father, Robert B. Sherman, the Academy Award–winning lyricist of 'It's a Small World,' Mary Poppins, Winnie the Pooh, and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Not fiction. A life in song, held in a daughter's hands.
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