Welcome to Summer, Friends!
I expect that like myself, you are looking forward to a rich summer of real and imagined travels. Here is an excerpt from Deborah Dash Moore, Posen Library Editor in Chief’s recent SUMMER newsletter to registered users. The entire message is posted in entirety at https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.posenlibrary.com/frontend/deborah-dash-moore-on-anticipating-summer__;!!KGKeukY!h1CyF2IAbGMFCL0-xucKjlcrMogmXA2mqABy7EDWfo3kBrLpbkdYGaSTHO4lqq2_XaY$ Quoting from the newsletter, *“Anticipating summer with its promised pleasures of a relaxed pace, I thought I’d take a piece of my own advice and peruse the Posen Digital Library <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://posenlibrary.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8f98663ce8f3a4de8ba96898c&id=6e161accc0&e=720979d821__;!!KGKeukY!h1CyF2IAbGMFCL0-xucKjlcrMogmXA2mqABy7EDWfo3kBrLpbkdYGaSTHO4laYlrljI$ > (PDL) to see what the word “summer” brought me. Such a diverse collection of poetry and prose appeared! The selections ranged from the Yiddish writer Der Nister’s The Family Mashber <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://posenlibrary.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8f98663ce8f3a4de8ba96898c&id=031f299548&e=720979d821__;!!KGKeukY!h1CyF2IAbGMFCL0-xucKjlcrMogmXA2mqABy7EDWfo3kBrLpbkdYGaSTHO4lOwO1U2c$ > published in the Soviet Union just before the Holocaust to Zalman Schneour’s lyrical account of “Making Jam <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://posenlibrary.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8f98663ce8f3a4de8ba96898c&id=1f4229f121&e=720979d821__;!!KGKeukY!h1CyF2IAbGMFCL0-xucKjlcrMogmXA2mqABy7EDWfo3kBrLpbkdYGaSTHO4lC55EsZk$ >” from raspberries. Then there was the Hebrew writer A. B. Yehoshua’s compelling account of a Bible teacher’s stubborn refusal to retire, from The Lover <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://posenlibrary.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8f98663ce8f3a4de8ba96898c&id=118f629afe&e=720979d821__;!!KGKeukY!h1CyF2IAbGMFCL0-xucKjlcrMogmXA2mqABy7EDWfo3kBrLpbkdYGaSTHO4lHSeoCWY$ >, alongside Aharon Appelfeld’s moving depiction of a charged encounter in a summer field during World War II between a Jew passing as a peasant with Jewish refugees in “The Escape <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://posenlibrary.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8f98663ce8f3a4de8ba96898c&id=dc3a127911&e=720979d821__;!!KGKeukY!h1CyF2IAbGMFCL0-xucKjlcrMogmXA2mqABy7EDWfo3kBrLpbkdYGaSTHO4lOlIazZs$ >.”* I regularly search the Posen Digital Library to discover places and authors who tell stories of my ancestors’ lives. For many years I have been reading the memoirs of displacement and fiction of Israeli Aharon Appelfeld in order to better understand the Czernovitzi Province, where he was born. As an adolescent, his mother was murdered in the family’s home and he was sent by the fascist Romanian troops to a Transnistria labor camp, from which he escaped and hid in the forests. Once in Israel he wrote in Hebrew in order to recapture the six years he had lost during the war. Appelfeld defied the Zionist notion to leave behind the memories of the European Diaspora and wrote vividly of the secular Jewish world of his youth. However, his discovery of his father after living separate lives in Israel for twenty years was too emotional to ever write about. My maternal ancestors originated and lived in the Bukovina area of then Romania, which later became Ukraine. At the end of WWI, and after losing their oldest daughter to the influenza epidemic, my great grandparents took their orphaned grandsons and moved from their farming estate in Lipkan to Czernovitz, the capital city of Bukovina and German culture. Between the world wars, Jews made up more than half of its population. I find Appelfeld’s stories the best way to capture the lives of that past generation. As the journalist, poet Adam Kirsch wrote in the March 9, 2020 issue of New Yorker, *“**Or perhaps, for Appelfeld, the only possible home was like that mountaintop—a half-remembered, half-imagined place that could exist only in the pages of a book.” https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/09/aharon-appelfelds-legends-of-home__;!!KGKeukY!h1CyF2IAbGMFCL0-xucKjlcrMogmXA2mqABy7EDWfo3kBrLpbkdYGaSTHO4lTL6dbxA$ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/09/aharon-appelfelds-legends-of-home__;!!KGKeukY!h1CyF2IAbGMFCL0-xucKjlcrMogmXA2mqABy7EDWfo3kBrLpbkdYGaSTHO4lTL6dbxA$ > * I wish you an enlightened summer with many of your own discoveries within the pages of the Posen Digital Library. Yours, Pamela Pamela Turner Bridget Marmion Book Marketing LLC working with The Posen Library https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.posenlibrary.com__;!!KGKeukY!h1CyF2IAbGMFCL0-xucKjlcrMogmXA2mqABy7EDWfo3kBrLpbkdYGaSTHO4lQ6gzTRU$ pturnertay...@gmail.com 216-408-5255 *https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://bit.ly/PosenVid__;!!KGKeukY!h1CyF2IAbGMFCL0-xucKjlcrMogmXA2mqABy7EDWfo3kBrLpbkdYGaSTHO4lQOd4IkA$ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://bit.ly/PosenVid__;!!KGKeukY!h1CyF2IAbGMFCL0-xucKjlcrMogmXA2mqABy7EDWfo3kBrLpbkdYGaSTHO4lQOd4IkA$ > *
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