A powerful exploration of the books created by Jewish Holocaust survivors to honor their lost world.
“Bittersweet… introduces readers to a remarkable but little-known artifact of the Jewish diaspora: yizkor books, or memory book… Alongside charming accounts of daily life drawn from several different yizkor books, Ziegelman shares poignant stories of her own family’s immigration to America and the terrible fate of the Jews of Luboml. It amounts to an immersive, dreamlike window into a tragically lost world.”
—Publishers Weekly
Join us on February 25th at 7 pm for a virtual book talk with Jane Ziegelman, the author of the newly released book, Once There Was a Town. Jane will be in conversation with Glenn Kurtz, the author of Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film.
By the close of World War II, six million Jews had been erased from the face of the earth. Those who eluded death had lost their homes, families, and entire way of life. Their response was quintessentially Jewish. From a people with a long-history of self-narration, survivors gathered in groups and wrote books, yizkor books, remembering all that had been destroyed. Jane Ziegelman’s Once There Was a Town takes readers on a journey through this largely uncharted body of writing and the vanished world it depicts.
Free reservations are required through Jlive.
The event is being run in partnership with the Toronto Holocaust Museum and the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre.
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