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Joan Adler: My Family: I Could Write a Book-- How Writing Helps You Learn About Your Family in N

When:
Sunday, September 13, 2020, 1:00 PM until 3:15 PM
Where:
Zoom: link will be delivered to all members one week before the program
Additional Info:
Category:
Monthly Meetings
Registration is not Required
Payment In Full In Advance Only
Capacity:
99
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My Family: I Could Write a Book-- How Writing Helps You Learn About Your Family in New and Novel Ways
Joan has been working with the Straus family for 30 years and is the director of the Straus Historical Society. The Straus family owned Macy’s and Abraham & Straus department stores, Oscar S. Straus served in President Theodore Roosevelt’s Cabinet and Isidor and Ida Straus went down in the Titanic.  Oscar was one of the founders and the first president of the American Jewish Historical Society.

As a Straus Historical Society project, Joan has written several books or helped edit books written by Straus family members. Joan writes, “It’s not the information you have, or how much information you have, but what you do with it that counts.”

Join Joan in a discussion of taking your research and first steps toward getting your family story published.



As a writer, Joan places the details of people's lives into context: learning about the times in which they lived, the political, social and economic conditions that affected their daily interactions, and how they chose to deal with these factors.

 

Her other jobs include doing oral histories, publishing books about Straus family history, writing a book about the relationship between Nathan Straus Jr and Otto Frank (father of Anne Frank), interfacing with historians, scholars, movie producers, Broadway play producers, government agencies, arranging family reunions, organizing trips to the places where the Straus family originated in Germany and in the US, and, best of all, speaking with people about the Straus family’s history.

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