Rediscovering Yiddishkeyt: A Girl's Voice from our Formative Past
Join us for a conversation between translators Tamara Helfer and Benjamin Lerman as they discuss Helfer's most recent translated work, The Winding Road: My Childhood Years by Rokhl Feygenberg. The book is a coming of age story written by a teenage girl who grew up in a small Belarusian shtetl in the 1890s. The author was one of the first women who wrote professionally in Yiddish. The conversation will include excerpts from the book, discussion of what it was like for a girl to grow up in a small shtetl in those times, what her family life and education were like, what the other residents of the shtetl were like, and how the Jewish and gentile residents interacted with each other.
This program does not require registration and is free to attend.
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