Wait For Me World
Coming Soon on Amazon
At 101-years-old, Deborah Eiferman discovered a forgotten carton of letters in a back room in her apartment. Scrawled on the top were two words underlined:
Go Thru.
Inside, sat letters, poems and short stories written by her fiancé who was killed in the English Channel on Christmas Eve, 1944.
He was 21 years old.
His name was Jerry Robbins.
He was a writer. And, as it turns out, a very good one. He was completing work on an MFA in Creative Writing at Columbia when he enlisted in the Army.
Wait for Me World is a collection of Jerry Robbins’ writings found in that carton and will soon be available on Amazon.
This book includes 265 letters he wrote to Deborah beginning in his years at summer camp and college, culminating in the fateful days prior to his death on a troop ship sunk by the Germans.
Featured in this book as well, are poems and short stories he wrote while in college and in stolen moments during boot camp.
Current Media
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Deborah's experience falling in love again at 101 was documented in an episode of the podcast, Heavyweight (available on December 18th, 2025.)
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Filmmaker Joe Berlinger is directing and producing a short documentary about Deborah, who is his mother-in-law. The short will be completed summer of 2026. Here is a link to the current work-in-progress.
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Lee Eiferman wrote a six-part limited series inspired by this story. A staged reading of the pilot episode will be held at Jazz Forum in Tarrytown, NY on January 20th, 2025.
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Bennett Eiferman composed music that accompanies a reading of Jerry Robbins' poem “Wait for me World”.
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