Tuesday March 4, 6:30 - 7:30 Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (formerly Mid-Manhattan Library) 455 Fifth Avenue, NY NY
free, w/ reservation at https://www.showclix.com/ event/yourcomradeavremlbroide/ tag/nyplwebsite ( https://www.showclix.com/event/yourcomradeavremlbroide/tag/nyplwebsite ) Join translator of the new English edition Annie Sommer Kaufman for this conversation with theater artist Jenny Romaine about the 1944 working class, coming-of-age Yiddish novel that traces the family origin, immigration, and radicalization of an everyman named Avreml Broide. Written in 1944 by Ben Gold, the president of the Furriers Union, Your Comrade, Avreml Broide traces the family origin, immigration, and radicalization of an everyman named Avreml Broide. Avreml's story begins entangled in a complex intergenerational social and criminal community in Bessarabia just after the turn of the twentieth century. Personal dramas drive a young Avreml to New York City in his young adult years, where he finds a job in the fur industry and devotes himself entirely to his union, party, and the fight against fascism, often to the detriment of his personal life and relationships. Through strikes, dissidence, and finally on the front lines of the Spanish Civil War, Avreml's journey presents the fascinating ambiguity of subsuming the self in service to party discipline. With bold and stimulating illustrations by William Gropper, Annie Sommer Kaufman's translation presents Gold's emotionally rich narrative to reveal some of the most dramatic conflicts in America's suppressed Communist history. This novel offers a powerful counternarrative to histories and narratives of Jewish immigration that emphasize materialist American dreams and upward class mobility. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#35272): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/35272 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/111242135/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
