<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">Forwarding. Please excuse duplications.<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Amber Hayes</strong> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ahayes@ala.org" target="_blank">ahayes@ala.org</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 11:47 AM<br>Subject: [glbtrt-l] APPLY NOW: The Yiddish Book Center’s “Coming to America” Reading Groups for Public Libraries</div><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please find the below message from ALA’s Public Programs Office (PPO):<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In what ways do immigrants change America, and in what ways does America change immigrants? Public libraries are ideal places to engage in this conversation.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Yiddish Book Center’s <a href="https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/language-literature-culture/yiddish-book-centers-decade-discovery/coming-america-reading-groups" target="_blank">
“Coming to America” Reading Groups for Public Libraries</a> is a reading and discussion program to engage teens and adults in thinking about immigrants’ experiences encountering America.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Public library workers can apply by August 16, 2019, to be part of the program. Participants will receive training and resources to help them lead a reading group that will explore three books of Yiddish literature in translation, as well
as one book related to an immigrant community served by their library.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Up to 30 public libraries will be selected. Learn more and apply online at
<b><a href="https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/language-literature-culture/yiddish-book-centers-decade-discovery/coming-america-reading-groups" target="_blank">yiddishbookcenter.org/public-libraries</a></b>.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Using Yiddish literature as a portal, the program will feature Yiddish literature in translation that explores questions of identity, assimilation, language, cuisine, and generational change, presenting American identity as an ongoing conversation,
a give-and-take-between insiders and outsiders, and will compare these works written in the early 20th century to works by contemporary immigrant writers.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Participating libraries will receive:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<li class="m_-41290518241765087m_-9110388706017192385m_-7638552370425624390MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">Expenses paid for facilitators to attend a two-day workshop at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Mass.<u></u><u></u></li><li class="m_-41290518241765087m_-9110388706017192385m_-7638552370425624390MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">15 copies of each of three books on the Yiddish Book Center reading list, as well as one copy each for the discussion facilitator and the library’s collection<u></u><u></u></li><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="circle">
<li class="m_-41290518241765087m_-9110388706017192385m_-7638552370425624390MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">“Motl the Cantor’s Son,” by Sholem Aleichem<u></u><u></u></li><li class="m_-41290518241765087m_-9110388706017192385m_-7638552370425624390MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">“Enemies, A Love Story,” by Isaac Bashevis Singer<u></u><u></u></li><li class="m_-41290518241765087m_-9110388706017192385m_-7638552370425624390MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">“A Jewish Refugee in New York,” by Kadya Molodovsky<u></u><u></u></li></ul>
<li class="m_-41290518241765087m_-9110388706017192385m_-7638552370425624390MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">15 copies of one additional book, selected by the library, that relates to the immigrant experiences of their own community<u></u><u></u></li><li class="m_-41290518241765087m_-9110388706017192385m_-7638552370425624390MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">Plus downloadable discussion guides and reading resources<u></u><u></u></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Applicants may also apply for an additional $500 award to cover the cost of a guest speaker.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>The Yiddish Book Center’s “Coming to America” Reading Groups for Public Libraries is made possible by a gift from Sharon Karmazin.<u></u><u></u></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Amber<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Amber Hayes<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Outreach and Communications Program Officer, Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach Services<u></u><u></u></p>
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