Registration now closed

Yiddish Book Center "Stories of Exile" Reading Group

Discussion of On the Landing: Stories by Yenta Mash

Join us for the first "Stories of Exile" Reading Group with a discussion of On the Landing: Stories of Yenta Mash. Naomi Brenner from The Ohio State University will co-facilitate the book discussion.

The Bexley Public Library has been selected as a participating library for the Yiddish Book Center's "Stories of Exile" Reading Groups for Public Libraries for 2023. We will begin this year-long series with a discussion of On the Landing: Stories of Yenta Mash. Naomi Brenner, Associate Professor in the Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures at The Ohio State University, will co-facilitate the book discussion to provide cultural and historical contexts for these stories translated from Yiddish. Registration is required; those who are registered for the reading group will receive a copy of On the Landing to read and return to the library after the book discussion.

About the reading group:

The Yiddish Book Center’s “Stories of Exile” Reading Groups for Public Libraries is a reading and discussion program to engage teens and adults in thinking about experiences of displacement, migration, and diaspora. In this program, librarians organize reading groups to discuss three books of Yiddish literature in translation, and one book related to the experience of a community served by their library. The Yiddish Book Center’s “Stories of Exile” Reading Groups for Public Libraries is made possible by a gift from Sharon Karmazin.

Upcoming events