Every weekend on cspan2, book tv offers programming. Keep watching for more here on cspan2. We had the privilege of welcoming poet and my fathers pass. Shell share her journey as the daughter of russian jewish father and mission to unravel the truth who her grandfather she discovered with the chief of police in a town where 8,000 jews were murdered in 1941. Her publication includes harvard review, massachusetts review, poet the and i more, and she is also at the anthology of lit from inside 40 years of poetry. She teaches creative writing at Hunter College and is speaking about a a guest at the shooters banquet, great reception from the Miami Book Fair and washington, dc. Please help me welcome rita gabis. Thank you for that beautiful introduction. I just want to say that i love arthur miller. One of the first playwrights i ever read, so thrilled to hear about the upcoming production. Going to take a quick sip of water. Im delighted to be speaking here at the west port public library,
Her publication includes harvard review, massachusetts review, poet the and i more, and she is also at the anthology of lit from inside 40 years of poetry. She teaches creative writing at Hunter College and is speaking about a a guest at the shooters banquet, great reception from the Miami Book Fair and washington, dc. Please help me welcome rita gabis. Thank you for that beautiful introduction. I just want to say that i love arthur miller. One of the first playwrights i ever read, so thrilled to hear about the upcoming production. Going to take a quick sip of water. Im delighted to be speaking here at the west port public library, has a wonderful authors program. I want to thank all of you for coming, and also to think cspan for being here as well to cover this event. Im just going to begin by reiterating what has already been said, i come from a blended family. My mother is first generation lithuanian catholic, and my father who passed away a little over ten years ago, was a russian
Host let me be clear as the name of the book. Katie keeper is the author. This is book tv on cspan2. Book tv is on instagram, follow us for publishing news, schedule updates, behind the scenes pictures and videos. Instagram. Com book underscore tv. We have the privilege of welcoming historian rita davis today to discuss her book, my grandfathers pass, my jewish family, search for the truth. She will share her journey as a daughter of a lithuanian catholic mother and a russian jewish father. In a mission to unravel the truth about her beloved grandfather from 19411943. She discovered he was the Security Police under the gestapo bow where lithuanian town where a thousand jews were murdered in the fall of 18 her awards include residencies that got on the Fine Arts Work Center and provincetown, as as well as grants from the connecticut state Art Foundation and new York Foundation for the art. Her publication list list includes harvard reviews, massachusetts review, poetry and more. She is
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Happening in washington and watching the dysfunction in this nation, i think that the major motivation for running for office had to be more out of frustration than anything else. Theties parity, the inconsistency in pl policies, decisions being made that lack i think, the Public Interest and are being made more so as a result of political decisions. Unfortunately, what im going to talk about tonight i dont think will be the only subject i come back and talk about over the next several months. It seems that often times the federal governments decisions, policies regulations seem to lack any type of connectivity to whats actually happening on the ground. Decisions being made in a vacuum. Decisions lacking, i think, the true expertise and what im going to talk about tonight is an example of that. This picture right here is a picture, or the result of bad federal policy. Now, the administration would lead you to believe that this picture is whats going to happen by building the Keystone P