On May 4th at 1:30 p.m. hear Marc Kaminsky read at the Stephen Dweck Center of the Brooklyn Library at Grand Army Plaza:
Shoes and Socks: On Holocaust and Memory. Holocaust
survivors speak often of shoes: an ill-fitting pair could be a death
sentence and a good-enough pair offered a chance at survival. Marc
Kaminsky presents stories by survivors.
the past thirty-five years, including most recently Shadow Traffic (from Red Hen Press), The Road From Hiroshima, What’s Inside You, It Shines Out of You, A Table with People and The Uses
of Reminiscence.
Kaminsky organized and conducted the first writing and
reminiscing groups for older adults, developing a model for what has
become a standard practice in gerontological settings. For his work on
the culture of aging and Yiddishkeit, he has received fellowships and
grants from The Lucius N. Littauer Foundation amd the Memorial
Foundation for Jewish Culture, among others.
The Road from Hiroshima,
his long narrative poem, was produced as a play for voices by Dennis
Bernstein for the National Public Radio in commemoration of the 40th
anniversary of the bombing; the production won the Art of Peace Award.