02:00pm - 04:00pm  A Forgotten Land: Growing up in the Jewish Pale

Speaker: Lisa Cooper Co-sponsored by the Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute at the Center for Jewish History Based on recorded conversations Lisa Cooper’s father had with his mother, Pearl, about her early life in Ukraine, A Forgotten Land is the story of one Jewish family in the Russian Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, set within the wider context of pogroms, World War I, the Russian Revolution, and civil war. Many Jewish immigrants to the West refused to talk about the ‘old country’, choosing to forget the unhappy times, not to pass on their memories. Lisa is fortunate that her ...