Join us after Shabbat dinner in the Sukkah as JCJ member Eva Izsak-Niimura discusses her recently published book Songs My Mother Taught Me on Friday, October 18 from 8:00 pm.
Songs My Mother Taught Me follows the narrator, confronted with the imminent death of her mother, on a voyage to share the final leg of their lifelong journey together. This epic and lyrical tale spans from Transylvania in the 1930s to modern-day Tel Aviv, Tokyo, New York and Paris – giving a literary voice to those affected by PTSD transmitted down the generations. With candor and lucidity, the narrator retraces the passage from childhood to womanhood under the powerful influence of a loving but suffocating mothers. Told by a daughter who has carried all her life the epigenetic endowment inherited from her parents’ experiences during the Holocaust, this raw and painfully honest story digs into the complexities and subtleties of love. Having spent most of her life traveling the globe in an attempt to escape this legacy, the narrator finds herself back in the house she grew up in, where she tries to finally piece together, and find peace with, the looming shadows of her family’s past.
About Eva Izsak-Niimura
Eva grew up in Israel and graduated from the Hebrew University School of Law. For over twenty years she practiced with some of the largest law firms in New York and served as in-house counsel in the US and in France. A mother of two daughters, Eva lives in Tokyo, Tel Aviv, New York, and Paris.
Date: Friday, October 18
Time: 8:00pm
Location: JCJ
Registration for book talk: https://jccjapan.jp/event-registration/
Registration for Erev Shabbat Chol Ha Mo’ed Dinner in the Sukkah is done separately here: https://jccjapan.jp/shabbat-meals-sign-up/