Sept 11 @ 7 PM - In the Land of the Postscript

STORIES OF EXILE

The East Meadow Public Library was awarded a book discussion grant by the Yiddish Book Center. The theme is Stories of Exile. Stories of Exile is a reading and discussion program to engage teens and adults in thinking about experiences of displacement, migration, and diaspora. Using Yiddish literature as a portal, the program will feature works in translation that explore narratives which grapple with questions of homelands, journeys, identity, and belonging. Reading groups will compare these works written in Yiddish in the early and mid-20th century to works by contemporary writers from all across the globe.

September 11 at 7:00 p.m. - In the Land of the Postscript: Short Stories by Chava Rosenfarb, translated by Goldie Morgentaler

This collection makes available in English for the first time a complete selection of Chava Rosenfarb’s short stories all in one place. All the stories in this collection deal with the afterlife of Holocaust survivors in North America. Since Chava Rosenfarb was herself a Holocaust survivor who settled in Montreal after the war, she speaks in these stories from personal experience at the same time as she allows her imagination to inhabit the minds of characters far different from herself.

The Yiddish Book Center’s “Stories of Exile” Reading Groups for Public Libraries is made possible by a gift from Sharon Karmazin.

Register online by clicking on this link, or by calling 516-794-2570, option 3.

August 14 @ 7 PM - Read 'N Share

Read ‘N Share – Read a good book recently? Talk about it with other book lovers! 

We will host our Summer Wrap-Up Read ‘N Share, on Zoom, to talk about the books that we read over the summer. We record your titles and make an annotated bibliography of all of the books we share, which will be available in September.

Register online by clicking on this link, or by calling 516-794-2570, option 3. The Zoom link will be sent to all who have registered the morning of the event.