The Persistence of Memory – My Father’s Ukrainian Shtetl – In Person

Presenter: Arthur Kurzweil

Arthur grew up hearing his father’s tales of Dobromyl, the small town -a shtetl – in what is now Ukraine, which his father had left behind as a child when his family emigrated to New York in the 1920s. As a young man in the 1970s, Arthur obsessively sought to rediscover this lost world, tracking down the shtetl’s surviving emigrants. This research led him write his best-selling book, “From Generation to Generation: How to Trace Your Jewish Genealogy and Family History,” but his obsession with Dobromyl didn’t abate.

Arthur will bring us along on his quest to find his father’s ancestral home in Dobromyl – a quest that covers physical and spiritual ground. Join him on a frustrating trip to Soviet-held Ukraine in the 1970s to multiple return trips to a free Ukraine in the 21st century, in a quest that brings him to the height of elation and to the depths of despair.

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