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What makes books on family history so compelling for me is that they offer a fresh and personal lens on historical events while simultaneously illustrating how historical circumstances have a profound impact on the development of people and their descendants.
Raised in Santiago, Berkeley and Mexico City,
Claudio Lomnitz is a professor of anthropology at Columbia University.
Lomnitz’s quest to understand his ancestors’ lives was made more difficult by the need to unravel the complicated national claims on their places of origin. As he notes, “I had to study a great deal just to answer one apparently simple question: Where were they from?”
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Mathnasium of Great Neck and Mathnasium of Roslyn, owned by.
Mathnasium of Great Neck and Mathnasium of Roslyn, owned by Karen and Alan Flyer, as well as Mathnasium of Commack, owned by Satish Nagarajan, joined forces this holiday season in donating to Island Harvest Food Bank, Long Island’s largest hunger-relief organization. Mathnasium students, who earn reward cards for completing Mathnasium materials, were given the opportunity to donate their “punch cards” to Island Harvest Food Bank in lieu of trading them in for prizes. The Flyers and Mr. Nagarajan matched the accumulated contributions of their students and are pleased to donate a combined $1,500 (representing 3,000 meals), as well as 67 pounds of food, to Island Harvest Food Bank.
GREAT NECK LIBRARY ONLINE AUTHOR VISITS.
GREAT NECK LIBRARY ONLINE AUTHOR VISITS
Join author Esther Amini when she speaks about her book, Concealed: Memoir of a Jewish-Iranian Daughter Caught Between the Chador and America online Thursday, February 18 at 1:00 p.m. Zoom information: Meeting ID: 812 0510 0990 Passcode: 227467.
Kirkus Reviews selected Concealed as one of the Best Books of 2020. Esther Amini s memoir speaks not only to Iranians and their first-generation American children, but to every immigrant and descendent who feels the poignant and complicated push-pull of legacy. Amini uncovers the story of her parents’ early years in Mashhad, Iran, and the little-known history and persecution of underground Jews in this ancestral homeland.