In this deeply personal and profoundly universal documentary, based on the internationally acclaimed book and theatrical production, Grammy-nominated concert pianist Mona Golabek shares the extraordinary story of her mother, Lisa Jura, a child-prodigy pianist. In 1938, Lisa was one of 10,000 unaccompanied Jewish children rescued from Nazi-occupied Europe and brought to England on the Kindertransport. […]

Join us for a powerful literary encounter with acclaimed writer and translator Goldie Morgentaler as she presents her novel Letters from the Afterlife: The Post-Holocaust Correspondence of Chava Rosenfarb and Zenia Larsson. Rochelle Saidel will open the program with reflections on the book as a rare and intimate window into postwar lives, drawing on correspondence […]

In this special Talking Memory book launch for Out of the Sky, author Matti Friedman will delve into the extraordinary story of the Jewish parachutists of 1944—young men and women who, having escaped Europe, made the fateful decision to return under a British mission into Nazi-occupied territory. Focusing on figures such as Hannah Senesh, Friedman […]