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From: "Jeanne Chakraborty" <>
Subject: Re: [GEN-EVENTS] GEN-EVENTS Digest, Vol 1, Issue 23
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 02:26:02 -0500


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Today's Topics:

1. JGSNY October meeting: ?The Lost: A Search for Six of Six
Million" (Gloria Berkenstat Freund)


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Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:29:47 -0400
From: "Gloria Berkenstat Freund" <>
Subject: [GEN-EVENTS] JGSNY October meeting: ?The Lost: A Search for
Six of Six Million"
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The Jewish Genealogical Society will present ?The Lost: A Search for Six
of
Six Million? on Sunday, October 22, 2006, at 2:00 PM. The guest speaker
is
Daniel Mendelsohn, an award-winning writer, critic, humanities scholar
and
the author of "The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million"
(HarperCollins,
September 2006). The program will be held at the Center for Jewish
History,
15 West 16th Street, Manhattan (between Fifth and Sixth Avenues).
Subway: 1,
2 and 3 to 18th Street; 4, 5, 6, L, N, R to Union Square; F, V, L to
14th
Street & Sixth Avenue. There is a $5 admission charge for non-members.

Daniel Mendelsohn returned to his family?s ancestral shtetl of Bolechow,
Ukraine, to learn the truth about a branch of his family that vanished
in
the Holocaust ? an investigation into the meaning of memory, family and
history. The focus of his talk will be the ?writer?s angle? in
genealogical
research and the emotions encountered when one moves between past and
present in an effort to solve a long-standing family mystery.

Mr. Mendelsohn is the author of "The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the
Riddle
of Identity" (Knopf, 1999). He is a frequent contributor to The New York
Review of Books and has written for numerous national publications
including
The New Yorker, Esquire, The New York Times Magazine and Book Review,
The
Paris Review and Travel + Leisure. He is the faculty chair of humanities
at
Bard College.

The Jewish Genealogical Society hosts monthly programs held at the
Center
for Jewish History. Members of the public are invited to attend these
events
and to join the organization, which was founded in 1977. For further
information call 212-294-8326 or visit www.jgsny.org.

Gloria Berkenstat Freund

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