The Stories We Share

Stories of Exile Reading Groups for Public Libraries

Oral histories are a way to pass down knowledge through generations with a personal touch. Faculty from Georgia State University's Special Collections and Archives department will discuss why collecting and preserving oral histories is an important endeavor, as well as the benefits for everyday people to tell their own stories.

Attendees will listen to short snippets of oral histories—collected by GSU—related to the Stories of Exile theme and will have the opportunity to partner up to share their own story. The floor would then open up to anyone willing to share their story of coming to America or what home means to them.

This program is intended for adults. No registration is required.

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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