Falmouth Jewish Congregation Hosts A Virtual Author Talk by Tracy Slater
Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp
Tuesday, December 9 at 7:30pm
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Falmouth Jewish Congregation invites everyone to a virtual author talk by Tracy Slater on her book Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp. This free event, scheduled just after our National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, will take place on Zoom (view from your home) on Tuesday, December 9 at 7:30pm. Register in advance at FJC's website www.falmouthjewish.org, where you will find information about this and additional author talks throughout the year.
Together in Manzanar tells the story of the Jewish American labor activist Elaine Buchman Yoneda, her Japanese American husband and fellow activist Karl Yoneda, and their imprisonment—along with their three-year-old son—in a mass incarceration camp for Japanese Americans during WWII. It is the story of a Jewish-Japanese American family’s painful choices and conflicting loyalties, the upheaval and violence that followed, and the their quest to survive with their children’s lives intact and their family safe and whole. As noted by the Jewish Book Council review, “her account of prejudice, the abuse of power, and the rationalizations used to justify them is as relevant today as ever. Slater’s natural empathy and sharp observations make this historical account a sensitive, affecting human story as well.”
Together in Manzanar has been named a Recommended Summer Read by the Jewish Book Council and has been covered by such media outlets as NPR’s Morning Edition. This is your opportunity to engage with the author over this compelling story. Bring your curiosity and questions and spend an hour with a story that expands your appreciation of this period of American history and its legacy.
Tracy Slater is an American writer from Boston who is usually based in Japan, her husband's country. Her essays and articles have been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Time magazine's Made by History, The Best Women's Travel Writing, The Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, Literary Hub, and The Chronicle Review, among other places. Slater taught writing for over ten years in Boston-area universities and in men’s and women’s prisons throughout Massachusetts and is the recipient of PEN New England’s Friend to Writers Award.