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The Patriots: Americans in Russia
Author Talk with Sana Krasikov
Award winning author Sana Krasikov presents the true story behind her new novel “The Patriots”.
Sunday, January 27 at 3 PM
Slavic/Yankee Melange Nosh to be served.
Donation $10
Let us know you are coming by emailing AdultProgramming@OurShirShalom.org
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Author Talk with Sana Krasikov
THE PATRIOTS: An idealistic young American woman heads for the Soviet Union in 1934, with consequences that reverberate through three generations of one Jewish family. An epic that takes us from Stalin’s era to America to the oil-rich world of New Russia.
Imagine a United States post-economic crisis. Economic uncertainty divides us by race and class. A new form of popular media fuels outrage. And the presidency is taken by the wealthy son of a New York family, who promptly develops a surprising friendship with Russia’s strong man leader.
If you think I’m talking about today…. you’d be off by about 80 years.
Come hear to the true story behind Sana Krasikov’s latest Novel, The Patriots, about Florence Fein, a young American woman who abandons her middle-class Brooklyn Jewish family and heads to where she thinks the Future is happening. Florence was hardly alone. Thousands of Americans made that “reverse migration”, only to find themselves trapped in Russia for good. Trapped not only by Stalinist schemes, but by America’s own complicated relationship with the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Includes the story of the Yiddish Poets who executed the greatest Jewish fundraising campaign you’ve (likely) never heard of.
Bio:
Sana Krasikov was born in 1979 in Ukraine and grew up in the former Soviet republic of Georgia and in New York. In 2017 She was named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists. Krasikov’s debut story collection, One More Year, was a finalist for the 2009 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award. It received a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 award and won the 2009 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker and The Atlantic, among other publications. She lives in Hastings-on-Hudson with her husband, Gregory Warner, a radio journalist, and their two children.
Arthur Kurzweil Jewish Genealogy
Congregation Shir Shalom invites you on a journey with Arthur Kurzweil, the Guru of Jewish Genealogy.
Author, educator, writer, publisher, illusionist and widely recognized as the leading expert on Jewish genealogy.
Featuring a Nosh that Bubbe could have made!
November 4th at 3 pm
Let us know you are coming by emailing us at AdultProgramming@OurShirShalom.org
Suggested Donation: $18
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TIME SENSITIVE/SHIR SHALOM: Please help the needy in the New Year! Food Pantry and Soup Kitchen dates
Happy New Year Everyone!
If you would like to start off the New Year by reaching out to others in need, here’s your chance. We really need your help!
Please join our energetic, dedicated teams for one or more of the below-listed sessions (the more the better of course!). A couple of hours of your time can truly make a difference to others…and be enjoyable too! No experience is necessary of course.
Daily Bread Food Pantry: man the Pantry as needy clients shop. Shir Shalom volunteers are responsible for the dates below:
- Monday, September 24, 9:30 a.m. – 11: 45 a.m. (PRIORITY!)
- Monday, October 29th, 9:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
- Friday, November 30th, 9:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Also, during the entire month of October, the Pantry we will need many more hands on deck on Monday and Friday mornings from 9:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. to help clients fill out brief/simple annual registration forms and to give out tickets for our Thanksgiving food distribution event. Please let us know if/when you can help. The Pantry would be so grateful to you!
- Dorothy Day Soup Kitchen: prep and serve a meal to hungry clientswith Shir Shalom volunteers and our partner church teams.
- Sunday, October 7th, 2018, 1:15 – 5:00 pm
- Sunday, November 4th, 2018, 1:15 – 5:00 pm
- Sunday, December 2nd, 2018, 1:15 – 5:00 pm
Reach out to me at SocialAction@OurShirShalom.org. I’d be happy to provide more information/answer any questions!
Thanks so much Everyone!
All my best,
Debbie Landzberg
Social Action Committee Co-Chairperson
Semi(te) Sweet with Rabbi Deborah Prinz
On the chocolate trail
Adult Programming Presents
Rabbi Deborah Prinz draws from her world travels and research on the trail of chocolate as she unwraps stories of the trade, retail and manufacture of chocolate since it was first introduced to Europeans.
Copious chocolate treats from the kitchen of Stacey and Adam Sussman will be served
Suggested Donation $10
Saturday, October 6 at 7:30 pm
Let us know you are coming by emailing AdultProgramming@OurShirShalom.org
Bring your friends! Babysitting provided!
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Operation Wedding: a documentary
Sunday, August 12, 2018 at 3 pm
Soviet Jews denied exit visas in 1970 hatch a plan to hijack an empty plane and escape under the guise of attending a family wedding, View the harrowing tale before it opens wide in theaters.
SYNOPSIS
Leningrad, 1970. A group of young Soviet Jews who were denied exit visas, plots to “hijack” an
empty plane and escape the USSR.
It started as a fantasy, Operation Wedding, as outrageous as it was simple: Under the disguise of a trip to a
local family wedding, the hijackers would buy every ticket on a small 12-seater plane, so there would be no
passengers but them, no innocents in harm’s way. The group’s pilot would take over the controls and fly
the 16 runaways into the sky, over the Soviet border, on to Sweden, bound for Israel.
Caught by the KGB a few steps from boarding, they were sentenced to years in the gulag and two
were sentenced to death; they never got on a plane.
While the Soviet press writes “the criminals received their punishment”, tens of thousands of people in the
free world demand “Let My People Go!“ and as the Iron Curtain opens a crack for 300,000 Soviets Jews
wanting to flee, the group members are held back to pay the price of freedom for everyone else.
45 years later, filmmaker Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov reveals the compelling story of her parents,
leading characters of the group, “heroes” in the West but “terrorists” in Russia, even today.
Anat and her mother Sylva, retrace the group’s journey from a Soviet airport to a KGB prison.
Cigarettes and vodka fuel interviews with the parents filled with intelligence and humor. Archives,
reenactments and interviews with KGB officers enhance this inspiring story of young Jews who imagined
freedom and cracked the Iron Curtain
Save The Date! Sunday, May 7 is Mitzvah Day!
Each spring, over 150 congregants and friends of all ages gather to participate in a variety of Mitzvah (good deed) projects at Congregation Shir Shalom and off-site area agencies. On this single day, we stock local food pantries, collect children’s books, knit hats for newborns and preemies, wash windows at senior residences, prepare meals for the homeless, and more. We conclude this amazing day of community spirit with a party for our volunteers, including a slideshow celebrating their accomplishments.
The Mitzvah Day Committee is hard at work planning an amazing day of service. We are currently seeking volunteers to help with set-up and take-down. If you’d like to help, email Debbie Lavin. Click here to email Debbie.
So, put Sunday, May 7th on your calendar and keep an eye out for more information!
Our Shir Shalom – January/February 2019 – Tevet/Shevat/Adar 1 5779
January 2, 2019 by Webmaster • Newsletter • 0 Comments
Our Shir Shalom January/February 2019 issue is online!
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