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August 12, 6:30pm-8pm

Join other readers at this online discussion on Zoom of Kadya Molodovsky's A Jewish Refugee in New York
Contact: Barbara Shatara at bshatara@ burlingtonvt.gov for Zoom info and how to obtain the book.

About This Month's Book:

Kadya Molodovsky (1894–1975) was one of the most well-known and prolific writers of Yiddish literature in the twentieth century.  Rivke Zilberg, a 20-year-old Jewish woman, arrives in New York shortly after the Nazi invasion of Poland, her home country. Struggling to learn a new language and cope with a different way of life in the United States, Rivke finds herself keeping a journal about the challenges and opportunities of this new land.  Molodovsy provides keen insight into the day-to-day activities of the large immigrant Jewish community of New York.

This book discussion was made possible by the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA.  

The Yiddish Book Center’s “Coming to America” Reading Groups for Public Libraries is a reading and discussion program to engage teens and adults in thinking about immigrants' experiences encountering America.  Using Yiddish literature as a portal, the program will feature Yiddish literature in translation that explores questions of identity, assimilation, language, cuisine, and generational change, presenting American identity as an ongoing conversation, a give-and-take between insiders and outsiders, and will compare these works written in the early 20th century to works by contemporary immigrant writers.

 

Date: 
August 12, 2020 - 6:30pm - 8:00pm

The Planetarium Lady: Eclipse program has been postponed to March 30. Registrants: please check your email for updates.