Author Noah Lederman traces the evolution of a his quest to uncover the stories of his grandparents’ harrowing past in this program based on his book.
A determined historian, dogged sleuth, and gifted storyteller, Lederman flecks his memoir with black humor and refreshing candor, illuminating how the horrors of the Holocaust are transmitted through the generations.
Noah Lederman is an award-winning writer whose work has been published in The Economist, the Boston Globe, the Miami Herald, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Chicago Sun-Times, Slate, Salon, the New Republic, Tablet Magazine, the Jerusalem Post, Tikkun, and elsewhere. He lives on Long Island.
This program is sponsored by the Holocaust Education Committee of the Quad Cities, the Rauch Family Foundation II, the Moline Public Library, and the Jewish Federation of the Quad Cities.
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