Essex County - Short Hills - No One Remembers Alone: Memory, Migration, and the Making of an American Family
Thursday, May 2 – Essex County No One Remembers Alone: Memory, Migration, and the Making of an American Family 12:00pm to 2:00 p.m. at Temple B'Nai Jeshurun; 1025 South Orange Avenue, Short Hills Please join the Millburn-Short Hills Historical Society and Congregation B'Nai Jeshurun on Thursday, May 2, 2019, from noon to 2:00 pm, for a very speical program: NO ONE REMEMBERS ALONE: Memory, Migration, and the Making of an American Family Beginning with the story of two young lovers, Abram and Sophie, who fled Czarist Russia following the failed revolution of 1905, speaker Patricia Klindienst recreates the migration story of an entire family of Russian Jews and details their ties to Millburn/Short Hills through archival photographs, documents, and postcards. Though it begins in Czarist Russia, theirs is an American story. It is the universal story of the American immigrant. Click here to read more of the love story! ...