Earl Grollman

EARL A. GROLLMAN was a certified death educator, counselor, and rabbi who wrote twenty-seven books on grief, loss, and crisis, including Straight Talk about Death for Teenagers and Talking About Death: A Dialogue between Parent and Child.

Grollman held the honorary degrees D.H.L. and D.D. and received the Distinguished Service Award from Yeshiva University. Talking About Death won the UNESCO award. He served as rabbi of Beth El Temple Center in Belmont, Massachusetts, for thirty-six years and was a past president of the Massachusetts Board of Rabbis.

Grollman was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1925 and was ordained as a rabbi in 1950 after studying at Hebrew Union College and receiving a bachelor’s degree from the University of Cincinnati. He died on October 15, 2021, in Belmont, Massachusetts.

Earl Grollman’s books are published by Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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