A new graphic art novel uncovers the autobiographies of six Jewish teens lost during World War II. From bar mitzvahs to music lessons, here are their stories.
A new graphic art novel uncovers the autobiographies of six Jewish teens lost during World War II. From bar mitzvahs to music lessons, here are their stories.
A new graphic art novel uncovers the autobiographies of six Jewish teens lost during World War II. From bar mitzvahs to music lessons, here are their stories.
Award-winning Israeli writer Ayelet Tsabari will join us to discuss her acclaimed memoir, The Art of Leaving, published by Random House.
About this Event
Ayelet Tsabari will discuss her memoir,
The Art of Leaving and its themes of longing and belonging, growing up Mizrahi in Israel, and reclaiming her Yemeni identity. She will be joined by discussant Rabbi Miriyam Glazer, Emerita Professor of Literature at American Jewish University.
Acclaimed Israeli author Ayelet Tsabari knows first-hand the challenges faced by immigrants, as the child of a Yemenite family in Israel and as an author writing about her homeland in English, her second language. Join her and Prof. Miriyam Glazer, as they discuss growing up Mizrahi in Israel, and refinding and reclaiming that identity through writing and extensive research into Yemeni culture and traditions. In the discussion, they will also explore how a writer’s cultural background, mother tongue, and origins influence and inform her writing, i
In 1942, Dr. Adele Kibre dark-haired, wicked-eyed, a medievalist by training began work as an overseas agent for the Interdepartmental Committee for the Acquisition of Foreign Publications. This Committee was a branch of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS): the wartime predecessor to the CIA, which sought to acquire documents in Europe that the Allies could use to develop intelligence and plan covert operations. Kibre, a scholar, was now also a spy.
Kibre was an ideal fit for the job. After receiving a PhD in medieval linguistics (University of Chicago, 1930), she had spent almost a decade hopping from archive to archive across Europe, earning cash by taking photographs of rare texts for scholars back home in the United States. In addition to her camera skills, Kibre had a gift for gaining access to closed archives. When Kibre once asked as Kathy Peiss describes, in a marvelous new book about spy craft and the book world during the Second World War to view “an unusually rare ma