Special Book Event with Professor Elisa New - Nov. 23, 7 p.m.

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Harvard Hillel and the Harvard Book Store proudly present a book event with

 

Professor Elisa New

 

Jacob's Cane:

A Jewish Family's Journey from the Four Lands of Lithuania to the Ports of London and Baltimore

 

 

Monday, November 23^rd, 7 p.m.

Smith Hall, Harvard Hillel 

52 Mount Auburn St., Cambridge

The book discussion will be followed by a book signing and dessert reception with Professor New

 

Harvard Book Store and Harvard Hillel are pleased to welcome Harvard Professor of English ELISA NEW for a discussion about her new memoir and family history Jacob's Cane: A Jewish Family's Journey from the Four Lands of Lithuania to the Ports of London and Baltimore.

Drawn to an image of her great-grandfather’s ornately carved cane, scholar Elisa New embarked on a journey to discover the origins of her precious family heirloom. Treading back across the paths of her ancestors, she travels from Baltimore to the Baltic to London in order to find and understand an immigrant world profoundly affected by modern German culture, from the Enlightenment through the Holocaust. Jacob’s Cane captures the rich texture of life on several continents as New’s family searches to establish itself in the tobacco trade. A fascinating history of one family’s story of progress, innovation, and struggle, Jacob’s Cane will change the way we think about the Jewish American experience.

   Elisa New is currently professor of English and American literature and language at Harvard University. Educated at Brandeis and Columbia Universities, she became assistant professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania in 1988 and professor of English at Harvard in 1999. She has written two previous books, The Regenerate Lyric: Theology and Innovation in American Poetry and The Line's Eye: Poetic Experience, American Sight.  Professor New is married to former Harvard President Larry Summers.

 

 

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