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Yiddish Book Center "Stories of Exile" Reading Group

VIRTUAL Discussion of On the Landing: Stories by Yenta Mash

Join us on Zoom for a virtual session of the "Stories of Exile" Reading Group to discuss On the Landing: Stories of Yenta Mash. Matt Johnson, from OSU, will co-facilitate the book discussion.

Join us on Zoom for a virtual session of On the Landing: Stories of Yenta Mash.  Matt Johnson, Senior Lecturer, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and Director of Yiddish and Ashkenazic Studies 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 to receive the Zoom link. Participants in Central Ohio 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. On the Landing is also accessible on Hoopla  for participants outside of Central Ohio.

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 began this year-long series with an in person discussion on May 15 of On the Landing: Stories of Yenta Mash, but we're offering a virtual session as well due to patron feedback.   

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.

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