The Crooked Mirror: A Memoir of Polish-Jewish ReconciliationLouise SteinmanIn conversation with Jack Miles, Distinguished Professor of English and Religious Studies, U.C. IrvineWhat happens when formerly estranged peoples look at their entwined history together? After attending a Zen Peacemaker retreat at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 2000, Steinman embarked on a decade-long exploration—into her own family’s history in a small Polish town—as well as an immersion in the exhilarating and discomforting, sometimes surreal, yet ultimately healing process of Polish-Jewish reconciliation taking place in today’s democratic Poland. *Click here to see photos from the program!
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