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Stories of Exile Reading Group Series: Yiddish Literature in Translation
September 14 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
The Yiddish Book Center’s Stories of Exile – Reading Groups for Public Libraries is a reading and discussion program to engage teens and adults in thinking about experiences of displacement, migration, and diaspora. We will meet to discuss three books of Yiddish literature in translation, and one book we’ve selected by St. Paul author Kao Kalia Yang’s Somewhere in the Unknown World: A collective refugee memoir. Copies of all four books will be provided to participants.
Meeting Dates:
THURSDAY, SEPT 14 • 6:30–8 PM
Highland Park Library, 2nd Floor Community Room
THURSDAY, OCT 12 • 6:30–8 PM
Highland Park Library, 2nd Floor Community Room
THURSDAY, NOV 2 • 6:30–8 PM
Minnesota JCC Capp Center St. Paul, In the Library
THURSDAY, NOV 30 • 6:30–8 PM
Minnesota JCC Capp Center St. Paul, In the Library
FREE AND OPEN TO ALL (LIMIT 15 PEOPLE)
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For questions or more information, contact Irit at iritv@minnesotajcc.org.
The Yiddish Book Center’s Stories of Exile – Reading Groups for Public Libraries is made possible by a gift from Sharon Karmazin.
The “Stories of Exile” Reading Groups are being offered as a partnership between Saint Paul Public Library and the Minnesota JCC.
