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FREE EVENT
Qesher Book Club:
Stories My Father Told Me
From Warsaw, Moscow, Algeria, Siberia, Kazakhstan, Dominican Republic
Tuesday, April 28
USA, Canada 12:00 pm PT / 3:00 pm ET
UK 8:00 pm / France 9:00 pm / Israel 10:00 pm
The talk will last approximately 60 minutes
About the Book
Stories My Father Told Me: From Warsaw, Moscow, Algeria, Siberia, Kazakhstan, Dominican Republic, is based on a memoir Dvora Treisman's father wrote for her late in his life so that she would know more about his history and the family she never met. His original manuscript is now at the YIVO archive.Her father, Rafał Feliks Buszejkin, was an unusual Polish Jew for his time. He was born in Warsaw in 1912 to a bourgeois Jewish family that left Warsaw in 1914 for Moscow to escape the Germans, and then returned to Warsaw in 1917 to escape the Bolsheviks. He boxed, raced bicycles, rode horses, got into fights. He studied medicine in France and agronomy in Algeria where he established a Maccabi sports club. He survived the Holocaust trapped in the Soviet Union, and after the war he lived in a Jewish farming community in the Dominican Republic before finally coming to the U.S. A master of resilience, he spoke five languages but preferred to swear in Russian.
You can order the book here.
About the Author
Dvora Treisman was
born, after the war, in the Dominican Republic. She grew up in Los Angeles and lived
much of her adult life in Berkeley until she moved to Barcelona when she was 52.
She is the editor of Ken Nirim:
Reflections and Stories, a collection of 34 essays by former members of
Hashomer Hatzair in Los Angeles during the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, and the author
of the memoir No Regrets: A Life in
Catalonia. She lives in Figueres with her little rescue dog.
RECORDING INFORMATION
This talk will be recorded and shared with registrants the day after.
It will be available without a time limit
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