[Cz-L] for our New York friends

Please joins us next week, two events: A book party and a panel:

**** "Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory"
Book Party and Signing
January 21
523 Butler Library, Columbia University
6-8
http://www.ghostsofhome.com

****PANEL DISCUSSION

How to Write Our Parents' Wars
Sunday, January 24, 1:30 p.M

Museum of Jewish Heritage --A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
36 Battery Place, New York, NY 10280 646-437-4297

Panel discussion and memoir writing workshop with Judith Greenberg =
(Cypora=92s Echo), Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer (Ghosts of Home: The =
Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory), Irene Kacandes (Daddy's War: =
Greek American Stories), Nancy Kricorian (Zabelle), and Gabriele Schwab =
(Haunting Legacies); moderated by Nancy K. Miller (Bequest and Betrayal: =
Memoirs of a Parent's Death)

Writers and critics in history and literary studies will discuss the =
challenges we face in bringing the complicated narratives of the past =
into the present.=20

Following the 90-minute discussion, audience members can participate in =
a memoir writing workshop in small groups led by individual panelists. =
Pre-registration for the 75-minute workshop is required. Please call the =
box office at 646.437.4202 to sign up for one of the following =
discussion topics:

How to Do Oral History: Leo Spitzer
Family Silences, Family Secrets: Irene Kacandes and Gabriele Schwab
The Family Drawer: What can objects and documents tell us about the =
past? Marianne Hirsch and Nancy K. Miller
Fiction and Truth: Judith Greenberg and Nancy Kricorian
=20
All workshop participants should bring 1-2 pages of writing, a story, an =
image, or an object they would like to discuss.

=20
$10, $7 students/seniors, $5 members =20=
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