ARIEL SABAR TO SPEAK AT NCJW’S APRIL 19 GENERAL MEETING
We are fortunate to have Ariel Sabar as our speaker at our April 19 general meeting. In his talk Mr. Sabar will weave the remarkable story of the Kurdish Jews and their Aramaic tongue with the moving tale of how a consummate California kid came to write a book about his family’s Kurdish roots. This debut book, My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for his Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq, won the National book critics Circle Award for Autobiography, one of the highest honors in American letters. Ariel Sabar is also an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Washington Post, Mother Jones and This American Life, among many other places. He is a Smithsonian Magazine correspondent, a Washington Magazine contributing editor, and former staff writer for many publications. He graduated from Brown University and has lectured there as well as the University of Maryland-College Park, Johns Hopkins, George Washington University and Georgetown. He has been interviewed about his books and articles on NPR, PBS NewsHour, C-Span and the BBC World Service. Join us at this meeting to find out about the Jewish connection to Aramaic and much, much more. This meeting is free for members. There will be a $10 charge for non-members that is applicable toward membership that day. Click photo to enlarge
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