Harvard Book Store presents ELISA NEW for a discussion
Harvard Book Store
Details:
Monday, November 23 / 7:00pm
ELISA NEW
Jacob's Cane: A Jewish Family's Journey from the Four Lands of Lithuania to the Ports of London and Baltimore
@ Harvard Hillel, Beren Hall | 52 Mt. Auburn St .
This event is free. No tickets are necessary.
Co-sponsored with Harvard Hillel
http://www.harvard.com/events/press_release.php?id=2412
Harvard Book Store and Harvard Hillel are pleased to welcome Harvard Professor of English ELISA NEW for a discussion about her new memoir and family history
Jacob's Cane: A Jewish Family's Journey from the Four Lands of Lithuania to the Ports of London and Baltimore. Drawn to an image of her great-grandfather’s ornately carved cane, scholar Elisa New embarked on a journey to discover the origins of her precious family heirloom. Treading back across the paths of her ancestors, she travels from Baltimore to the Baltic to London in order to find and understand an immigrant world profoundly affected by modern German culture, from the Enlightenment through the Holocaust.
Jacob’s Cane captures the rich texture of life on several continents as New’s family searches to establish itself in the tobacco trade. A fascinating history of one family’s story of progress, innovation, and struggle,
Jacob’s Cane will change the way we think about the Jewish American experience.