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Please join 3GNY virtually on Tuesday, April 16th at 8pm ET for an intimate discussion with author and historian Jacob Mikanowski, who will be discussing his latest work, Goodbye, Eastern Europe, in the next installment of our Jewishness, Activism and Finding Belonging series.

“Goodbye, Eastern Europe is a masterful narrative about a place that has survived being forgotten. Beginning with long-lost accounts of early pagan life, Mikanowski offers a kaleidoscopic tour of the various peoples who made Eastern Europe their home over the centuries, including the Roma, Jews, and Muslims; the great kingdoms of the medieval period; the rise and fall of the Ottoman, Habsburg, and Russian empires; the dawn of the modern era; the ravages of fascism and Communism; the birth of the modern nation-state and beyond.” -Penguin Random House

In this riveting fireside chat, we will take a deep dive into the process and research behind writing a book that features 2,000 years of vast history, the long and diverse story of Jews in Eastern Europe, the golden age of Europe and its Jewry, the Holocaust and how Jews experienced the rise of fascist terror and violence from the Baltics to the Balkans, and how to make sense of Jewish life now in a region whose Jewish population was decimated.

Jacob Mikanowski is a historian, a freelance journalist, and critic. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Aeon, Cabinet, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Guardian, The New York Times, newyorker.com, and many more.

Please register for the Zoom link and we look forward to seeing you there!