Moderated Book Talk: Anatomy of a Friendship: A Dual Memoir of Women's Journeys through War to Peace
Thu, Jan 19
|HCLS Central Branch
Presented in partnership with Jewish Federation of Howard County and moderated by Shauna Leavey, Director of Community Engagement, Jewish Federation of Howard County.
Time & Location
Jan 19, 2023, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
HCLS Central Branch, 10375 Little Patuxent Pkwy, Columbia, MD 21044, USA
About the Event
Register today at HoCo Library.
Diane Tuckman discusses the collaborative memoir, a story of resilience and survival, that she wrote with her friend Cecile Spiegel.
Diane and Cecile both fled religious persecution with WWII conflicts at their heels. Separately, from Egypt and from Germany, each leaped continents, cultures, and languages as a refugee before finding a new home in the United States. Hiding in plain sight in France, Cecile eluded capture by the Nazis, but lost many dear to her. Diane came of age there, far from the Mediterranean idyll of her childhood in Egypt.
They relied on family, faith, and resilience to overcome the otherness felt by displaced peoples. As they dictated their memoirs to one another, Diane and Cecile discovered the anatomy of their friendship in their parallel odysseys and the optimism of 20th-century American womanhood.
Presented in partnership with Jewish Federation of Howard County and moderated by Shauna Leavey, Director of Community Engagement, Jewish Federation of Howard County.