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Stories of Exile

Reading Groups for Public Libraries

In this first Stories of Exile reading group discussion, we will explore the concepts of Home and Memory. We will discuss the short stories "The Bridegroom Tree," and "By the Light of the Moon," and "At the Western Wall" from Yenta Mash's On the Landing and "Andrea" from Roberta Fernández's Intaglio.

Yenta Mash and Roberta Fernández both write semi-autobiographical stories about their personal experiences living in their respective diasporas in the twentieth century. Mash was a Poland-born Jew who was sent into exile in Siberia during WWII and later immigrated to Israel. Fernández is a fifth-generation Tejana who grew up on the Texas-Mexican border deeply immersed in her family's Mexican-American culture.

This program is for adults and high school-aged teens. Registration is required to receive the selected readings.

About the Stories of Exile series

This program is part of the "Stories of Exile" series sponsored by the Yiddish Book Center. 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. 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. Accompanying the reading groups will be informational lectures on subjects relating to the reading discussions.

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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