Roslyn was born in a shtetl in Eastern Europe, but she could easily be confused with a native New Yorker.  Roslyn has never stopped building bridges of understanding between the world she left behind as a child and the modern American world in which she lives.        

Roslyn has always told stories; first to one, then ten and then to hundreds of people who sit entranced by the color and passion of her tales.  For telling stories is what she is about. Some of her stories are as recent as last week and some as old as the oral tradition itself. Roslyn is known for telling it "as it is," and has received acclaim as a nationally admired storyteller, workshop leader, award-winning recording artist, and writer.

Her tales are oral history at its most poignant and humorous. And although her life as she says, has not always been a telerl fun himmel  (a plate sent from heaven), she views the world with joy and laughter. She reassures her audiences that though the stories are her own, they share a commonality with all who hear them.