Please note: The Bexley Public Library will close today, April 2nd, at 3:30pm due to the impending inclement weather.
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.
Bexley Public Library was founded in 1924 and first housed in Bexley High School, now Montrose Elementary School. The present building opened in 1929 and was designed by architects O.C. Miller and R.R. Reeves who drew upon French and Italian architecture from the 17th century for the design.
The library is located at 2411 East Main Street, at the intersection of East Main Street and Cassady Avenue. Parking is available in our parking lot on Euclaire Avenue and in front of the library on Main Street. Main Street is a No Parking Tow Zone from 4:00-6:00 p.m. weekdays.
