The Wanderers: A Pre-Shabbat Passover Book Talk & Nosh

Before Shabbat of Passover on April 3, join us for a special pre-Shabbat Book Talk & Nosh with writer and Nefesh Kin and Board Member Daniela Gerson. She will read a passage from her new book “The Wanderers,” followed by a discussion with Daniela, Talia Inlender, and Rabbi Susan about the themes of the book and its connections to Pesach. We’ll then enjoy some delicious matzo ball soup, matzo with herring, and vodka (while supplies last!), and head downstairs for Shabbat services.

Daniela will sign copies of “The Wanderers.” You can purchase a copy via the RSVP link above by including an extra $30 in your suggested donation (profits of book sales will be donated to Nefesh and CLUE’s Detained Immigrant Bond Fund).

About “The Wanderers”

Daniela Gerson and her wife, Talia Inlender, met at a picnic in Los Angeles, not
knowing that 75 years earlier, their grandparents had left homes only blocks
away from each other in a small Polish town, and fled east to Ukraine. The Gersons and the Inlenders would go on parallel odysseys of 5,000 miles to survive the Holocaust—one that would, after a deceitful loyalty test from Stalin, put them on cattle cars to a Soviet Gulag, years in limbo in Central Asia, and would end, after a decade on the run, with new lives built on secrets and lies.

Part genealogical detective story, part gripping history, part contemporary reporting on war-torn territories, THE WANDERERS chronicles Daniela’s journey to unearth this past with her wife, and reveal its echoes in still-contested lands from Ukraine to Israel. THE WANDERERS is a groundbreaking narrative history, and a meditation on how a home left behind and a desperate journey to survive reverberates across borders and
through generations.

About Daniela Gerson

Daniela Gerson is an award-winning immigration reporter whose work has appeared in outlets including The New York Times, WNYC, Der Spiegel, and Financial Times. An associate professor of journalism at California State University, Northridge and editor-at-large at Zócalo Public Square, she previously co-founded Migratory Notes, worked as a community engagement editor at the LA Times and as a staff immigration reporter for the New York Sun. Daniela lives in Los Angeles with her two children and wife, an attorney specializing in immigrants’ rights.

Date: Friday, April 3

Time: 5:30pm to 7pm (before Shabbat of Passover service)

Location: Echo Park Commons