| Book Talk | Born in a displaced persons’ camp two years after the end of the Holocaust, Michael Gawenda spent his childhood and teenage years at the Sholem Aleichem College in Melbourne. This shaped the sort of Jew he became — a secular Jew who loved Yiddish language and culture.
Gawenda went on to become a public figure during his 40 years as a journalist, including his role as editor-in-chief of the prestigious Australian publication The Age — the only Jewish editor-in-chief in the newspaper’s history. Throughout this time, hostility towards Israel that he witnessed in his professional life sparked him to examine his own Jewish identity and his relationships with his Jewish friends, and to forensically examine the basis of the critiques of Israel.
Join YIVO for a discussion with Gawenda about his new autobiography, My Life as a Jew, led by editor at large of the New York Jewish Week Andrew Silow-Carroll. |
