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My Name is Stramer – In-person Program
Though he returned from America penniless, Nathan Stramer still daydreams of a better life, as he struggles to make ends meet back in the small Polish town of Tarnów. Raising six children with his wife Rywka, he chases hare-brained schemes to make money while she fantasizes about a trip to the seaside. Crammed into a two-room apartment on down-at-heel Goldhammer Street, the family gets by on very little, and everyone has to pitch into Nathan’s latest ventures, including an ill-fated Stramer family café.
As the years pass, their children begin to take steps into a changing world. While Nathan and Rywka try to hold the center of their raucous family life together, national conflicts begin to escalate in Europe, and sinister forces creep into the Stramers’ world that they don’t yet understand. Author Mikolaj Lozinski tells the tragic story of the interwar years through the ordinary triumphs and struggles of this sprawling Polish-Jewish family.
Join us for a discussion with Lozinski about the newly-released English translation of his historical fiction novel My Name is Stramer, in a discussion led by Irena Grudzinska Gross.
Ticket Info: Free; registration is required
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