Memoirists write their personal stories in a way that appeals to the emotions and experiences of their readers.
Jewish memoirists Esther Amini (Concealed: A Memoir of a Jewish-Iranian Daughter Caught Between the Chador and America), Angela Himsel (A River Could be a Tree), and Ilan Stavans (How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish and The Seventh Heaven: Travels through Jewish Latin America) will sit down with Sandee Brawarsky, culture editor of The Jewish Week, to talk about how they use the memoir format to express their identity and history.
When: November 19 at 7 pm ET
Where: 92nd St Y
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Edited by Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert
2020 Foreword INDIES Silver Award for Anthologies
Winner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award (Yiddish)
A momentous and diverse anthology of the influences and inspirations of Yiddish voices in America—radical, dangerous, and seductive, but also sweet, generous, and full of life—edited by award-winning authors and scholars Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert.
Hardcover • ISBN: 9781632062628
Publication date: Jan 21, 2020
Paperback ISBN: 9781632062260
Publication date: Apr 25, 2023