Admission: $18 | Books: $29.95 + tax

The Lessans Family Literary Series is thrilled to welcome Seth Stern, author of Speaking Yiddish to Chickens: Holocaust Survivors on South Jersey Poultry Farms, to our Book Festival.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Speaking Yiddish to Chickens is the first book to chronicle how roughly 1,000 Holocaust survivors – including the author’s grandparents – found an unlikely refuge and gateway to new lives as poultry farmers in southern New Jersey. This book relies on interviews with dozens of these refugee farmers and their children, as well as oral histories and archival records. This is their remarkable story of loss, renewal, and perseverance in the most unexpected of settings.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Seth Stern is a legal journalist and editor at Bloomberg Industry Group. He previously reported for Bloomberg News, Congressional Quarterly, and the Christian Science Monitor. He co-authored Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010). He is a graduate of Harvard Law School, the Harvard Kennedy School, and Cornell University.

*Book will be available for purchase and the author will be signing after the event.