[BCMA] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Book Lecture

[Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv.]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Book Lecture

August 23, 2010

 

The Jewish Museum & Archives of British Columbia present

Seemah C. Berson: I Have a Story to Tell You

 

 

Vancouver, BC -  Editor Seemah C. Berson will present her latest
publication I Have a Story to Tell You on Wednesday, September 15, 2010
from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm at the Jewish Museum & Archives of British
Columbia, located on the 3rd floor of the Jewish Community Centre of
Greater Vancouver (950 W. 41st Avenue, Vancouver, BC V5Z 2N7).  

 

I Have a Story to Tell You is about Eastern European Jewish immigrants
living in Montreal, Toronto, and Winnipeg in the early twentieth
century. The stories encompass their travels and travails on leaving
home and their struggles in the sweatshops and factories of the garment
industry in Canada. Basing her work on extensive interviews, Seemah
Berson recreates these immigrants' stories about their lives in the Old
Country and the hardship of finding work in Canada, she tells how many
of these newcomers ended up in the needle trades. 

 

Hear from editor Seemah C. Berson about the remarkable people and
stories uncovered while researching the book. Admission is free and the
book will be available for purchase at the lecture for $25.00.

 

About the editor: 

Seemah Berson was born and raised in Calcutta, India. After travelling
extensively, she arrived in Vancouver, B.C., in 1954. She received her
B.A. (1975) and M.A. (1980) from the University of British Columbia. She
is co-editor with Henry M. Rosenthal of The Canadian Jewish Outlook
Anthology (1988), and was a contributor to and long-time member of
Outlook magazine's collective. She is a published children's author and
a sometime artist in soap-stone, stick-making, and painting.

 

For more information, contact info at jewishmuseum.ca or call
(604)257-5199.

 

 

 

For more information, contact:

Molly Winston, Media Contact

Jewish Museum & Archives of British Columbia

(604) 638-7288, mwinston at jewishmuseum.ca

 

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