Joyce Eisenberg
A 1973 English graduate, Joyce Eisenberg is an author and editor with more than 25 years of experience. A contributor to Fodor’s Travel Guides since 1986, Joyce is the author of the first Fodor’s Philadelphia and a contributor to Travel Historic America: The 13 Colonies. She also wrote Let's Visit Grenada and co-authored (with Ellen Scolnic) the JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, a Yiddish and Hebrew dictionary with over 1200 entries for Jewish holidays and life-cycle events, culture, history and worship.
During her 17-year stint as editor of special supplements for the Jewish Exponent, she edited a series of kosher cookbooks and Holocaust memoirs. Joyce has taught memoir writing to senior citizens at Rosemont College and founded a writers' group, Playpen, for mothers who are freelance writers. She is a past president of the Merion Park Civic Association. Joyce and her husband, Ted (‘76 Pre-Med) have created an endowed fund in the English department that supports undergraduate students majoring in English who have an interest in non-fiction writing. They have a college-age son and daughter and live in the Philadelphia suburbs.
