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JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS SERIES: Cathleen Schine
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Event Series: Authors & Ideas Series
JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS SERIES: Cathleen Schine
December 14, 2023 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
JCC MetroWest presents, Cathleen Schine, “Kunstlers in Paradise”
For years, clever and glamorous Mamie Künstler, 93, has lived happily in her bungalow in Venice, California with her housekeeper and gigantic St. Bernard dog. Their tranquility is upended when Mamie’s twenty-something grandson, Julian, arrives from New York City to seek his fortune in Hollywood. But it is 2020, the global pandemic sweeps in, and Julian’s short visit suddenly has no end in sight. Mamie was only eleven when the Künstlers escaped Vienna in 1939. They made their way, stunned and overwhelmed, to sunny, surreal Los Angeles where they joined a colony of distinguished Jewish musicians, writers and intellectuals also escaping Hitler. Now, faced with months of lockdown and a willing listener, Mamie begins to tell Julian the buried stories of her early years in Los Angeles.
Book group discussion at 12:00 PM
Author presentation at 1:00 PM
Book Group discussion and conversation with the author will be available either in person or on Zoom for participants; author will present via Zoom.
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