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Temple Emanu-El invites you to a attend the next event in its Library Museum Lecture Series Katharine Weber, Author of Triangle: A Novel Wednesday, March 23, 2011 6:30 PM 1 East 65th Street New York NY 10065 MARCH 25, 2011, IS the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, a workplace disaster that had enormous effect on the growing labor movement and politics. Temple Emanu-El member Henry Morganthau was involved in the legal proceedings after the fire. Author Katharine Weber, through the context of her fictionalized account of the fire, will discuss the tragedy and its long-lived consequences. Ms. Weber's novel features Esther Gottesfeld, the last living survivor of the fire, who has told her story countless times in the span of her lifetime. Even so, her death at the age of 106 leaves many unanswered questions about what happened that fateful day. How did she manage to survive the fire when at least 146 workers, most of them women, her sister and fiancé among them, burned or jumped to their deaths from the sweatshop inferno? Are the discrepancies in her various accounts over the years just ordinary human fallacy, or is there a hidden story in Esther's recollections of that terrible day? Esther's granddaughter Rebecca Gottesfeld, with her partner George Botkin, an ingenious composer, seek to unravel the facts of the matter while Ruth Zion, a zealous feminist historian of the fire, bores in on them with her own mole-like agenda. A brilliant, haunting novel about one of the most terrible tragedies in early 20th-century America, Triangle forces us to consider how we tell our stories, how we hear them and how history is forged from unverifiable truths. KATHARINE WEBER IS THE AUTHOR OF "FRIEND OF THE FAMILY" (SHORT STORY) AND THE NOVELS OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR, THE MUSIC LESSON, THE LITTLE WOMEN, TRIANGLE AND TRUE CONFECTIONS. HER MEMOIR, THE MEMORY OF ALL THAT, WILL BE PUBLISHED IN 2011. MS. WEBER IS CURRENTLY AN ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN THE GRADUATE WRITING PROGRAM AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. Enter at 1 East 65th Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues New York, NY 10065 For further information 212 744-1400 Ms. Weber will be providing copies of her books for purchase and signing --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
