Author Event with Nancy K. Miller
Great Neck Library, Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at 7:30pm
Nancy K. Miller discusses What They Saved: Pieces of a Jewish Past.
NANCY K. MILLER will speak about "What They Saved," the story of how she reconstructed her family's missing past from a handful of mysterious objects passed down from her father. The strange collection--locks of hair, a postcard from Argentina, a cemetery receipt, letters written in Yiddish--moved her to search for the people who had left these traces of their lives and to understand what had happened to them. Nancy K. Miller, Distinguished Professor of Literature at CUNY Graduate Center, has written, edited or co-edited more than a dozen volumes, including Getting Personal, Bequest and Betrayal, and But Enough About Me. This event is free and open to the public. Copies of "What They Saved" will be available for purchase and signing following the event. (Janet126)… (more)
NANCY K. MILLER will speak about "What They Saved," the story of how she reconstructed her family's missing past from a handful of mysterious objects passed down from her father. The strange collection--locks of hair, a postcard from Argentina, a cemetery receipt, letters written in Yiddish--moved her to search for the people who had left these traces of their lives and to understand what had happened to them. Nancy K. Miller, Distinguished Professor of Literature at CUNY Graduate Center, has written, edited or co-edited more than a dozen volumes, including Getting Personal, Bequest and Betrayal, and But Enough About Me. This event is free and open to the public. Copies of "What They Saved" will be available for purchase and signing following the event. (Janet126)… (more)
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