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Jewish Literary Voices: A Federation Series in collaboration with The Jewish Book Council
When Leah Lax, author and librettist was asked to write an opera to celebrate local immigrants, she began by spending a year listening to accounts of upheaval, migration, and arrival told to her in confidence by people new to this country from around the globe. She felt she had discovered America, found its great beating heart.
In interludes between the powerful stories in Not From Here, Leah uncovers the lost history of her Jewish family and finds a larger context for her own story. “In a way,” she writes, “we Americans are all immigrants.”
Purchase the book HERE and a portion of the proceeds will be donated back to a local independent bookstore in the Berkshires.
