MAY 28 | 6:30pm at McNally Jackson Seaport
The Personal Is Archival
Arielle Angel, Menachem Kaiser, and Gideon Lewis-Kraus
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How do you squeeze a narrative out of your history? How do you knit together the memories, documents, silences, and myths into something that makes even a little bit of sense? In a conversation co-sponsored by Jewish Currents, Arielle Angel, Menachem Kaiser, and Gideon Lewis-Kraus discuss finding personal stories in collective memories.
Arielle Angel grew up in Miami, Florida and lives in Brooklyn, New York. She is the editor of Jewish Currents and a frequent host of the Jewish Currents podcast, On the Nose. She was a 2018 New Jewish Culture Fellow and a 2016 Fellow at Tent: Creative Writing at The Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Menachem Kaiser lives in Brooklyn. His memoir Plunder was named a New York Times Critics top book of the year, and was the recipient of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.
Gideon Lewis-Kraus is a staff writer at the New Yorker.