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Message: Thu, Nov 8, 2007 at 9:00 pm Location: Vilna Shul Free memoir writing program sponsored by the BCJC at the Historic Vilna Shul: with and by Marlyn Katz Levenson Free workshop on Memoir Writing will be held on Thursday, November 8 from 7-9 pm at the Historic Vilna Shul, 18 Phillips Street, Boston, MA 02114. Did you grew up in South End, the North End, East Boston, Roxbury, Dorchester, Mattapan or the West End? This year, the BCJC at the historic Vilna Shul, is focusing on Reconnecting to the Tapestry that was the Boston Jewish Experience and we want to know your part of that story. We are looking for any and all memories and if possible pictures or artifacts that you might have from before 1950 - a vignette of Boston the way it was. Please share a memory or two of your early days. Well, you say you have memories but you don’t know how to begin. Each of us has memories of our early days, of our parents and grandparents, of the way it was. “Oh, but I can’t write,” you say. Writing is talking with a pencil or keyboard in your hand. If our stories are not written down, recorded, preserved in some fashion, it will be as though we had not been, not breathed, loved, worked, produced, been happy, disappointed, depressed, as though we had not lived. By writing down our stories, we validate our lives, our struggles, our experiences. It is important to remember our stories and to preserve them in a format which will be available to future generations. I’m sure you wish, as I do, that you had thought to record your families’ stories. You have that opportunity to do so. About 25 years ago Marlyn Katz Levenson heard Isaac Bashevis Singer, Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature say that ”God is the great novelist, and every human being’s life is a novel.” Marlyn was transfixed by that statement and began to write down what she remembered of her family’s stories; their early experiences coming to America, the way it was. Her father and Bubby were gone by then so she began to record what she could stories of the stories they told her when they were still alive. Perhaps it is time for you to write down your stories? There is no charge but pre-registration is required by calling 617–523-2324.
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