Exploring the history of Ashkenazi Jews in the 18th and 19th centuries across Western and Eastern Europe\, we find t hat they are repeatedly driven eastward towards Russia. The largest popula tion of the Jewish faith lived in what today is Poland\, until that countr y ceased to exist for all of the 19th century. Catherine the Great of Russ ia carved out the Pale of Settlement for the Jews from a vast tract of lan d primarily across Lithuania\, Poland\, Belarus\, Moldova\, and Ukraine. W e&rsquo\;ll explore the forced migration of the Jews across these countrie s into their chosen shtetls pre-WWII\, as well as resources for family his torians who are researching their Ashkenazi Jewish heritage. Presented by local genealogist Suzanne Hoffman. \;
\nThis program is part of the library's "St ories of Exile" series taking place this fall. This series is the resu lt of a grant awarded to Wilmette Public Library and twenty-seven other li braries around the country by the Yiddish Book Center. The Yiddish Book Ce nter is a nonprofit organization working to recover\, celebrate\, and rege nerate Yiddish and modern Jewish literature and culture. \;With this s eries\, the Center hopes to use Yiddish literature as a lens to reflect up on the experience of exile\, displacement\, and migration shared across cu ltures and throughout history.
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