Susannah Schild
Writer · Memoirist
Susannah
Schild.
Essays about the land, the people, and the long memory they keep.
Essays about the land, the people, and the long memory they keep.
Susannah Schild is a writer based in Neve Daniel, in the hills south of Jerusalem, where she lives with her husband and family. Her essays about the land, the people, the war, and the inheritance from those who came before appear regularly in the Jerusalem Post and the Times of Israel.
She is the author of From Southerner to Settler, a memoir about leaving her childhood home in New Orleans to build a life in Israel.
She is currently completing Still Here, an intergenerational memoir about one family's struggle to keep choosing life — weaving her family's experience of October 7 and the war that followed together with her husband's grandfather's survival of Auschwitz and his eventual return to Israel at the age of ninety-six.
She also founded Hiking the Holyland, Israel's largest English-language hiking site, in 2018.
One family. Two wars. Eighty years apart.
The book weaves my family's experience of October 7 and the war that followed together with my husband's grandfather's survival of Auschwitz, his liberation, his decades in America, and his eventual return to Israel at the age of ninety-six.
It draws on extensive interviews with him, with other survivors, and on family testimonies preserved across three generations.
A memoir of one family, one land, and the stubborn beauty of staying.
For agents, editors, journalists, and other inquiries about Still Here or other work.
susannah@hikingintheholyland.com