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Poet Julia Dasbach reading/lecture: ‘Lyric Witness: Intergenerational (Re)collection of the Holocaust’
May 18, 2023 @ 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Julia Kolchinksy Dasbach emigrated from Dnipro, Ukraine, as a Jewish refugee in 1993, when she was 6. She is the author of The Many Names for Mother, winner of the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize; Don’t Touch the Bones; and the forthcoming 40 WEEKS.
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Tonight’s program will be a combined reading/lecture that will connect her family’s Holocaust experience and history in Ukraine with current events will incorporate Julia’s “Dear Ukraine” activity, where participants can send their own messages/poetry to the people of Ukraine.
This event is sponsored by: Hadassah, Temple Beth El, The Birmingham Jewish Federation, the JCRC, the Levite Jewish Community Center, the Alabama Holocaust Education Center, Temple Emanu-El, and Knesseth Israel.