Jonathan Taylor writes:

Lore Segal, whose Other People's Houses was serialized by The New Yorker in the 1960s, and whose Shakespeare's Kitchen (2007) also grew out of a series of related New Yorker stories, will be among five writers of Austrian Jewish origin reading this Thursday from "memoirs and fiction on growing up and older away from their homeland," at the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York. Their website is a bit problematic, so I'll paste the info below the fold:

THURSDAY FEB 5, 6:30 PM
HOW FAR WAS VIENNA?

Five accomplished authors with Austrian-Jewish roots will read from newly published memoirs and fiction on growing up and older away from their homeland. The participants will also discuss the different experiences of those who settled outside the metropolis and in New York, and nostalgia and memory among refugees, compared to immigrants.

With authors Carol Asher, Eva Kollisch, Bruno Schwebel, Lore Segal and Leo Spitzer.

Carol Ascher's new memoir, "Afterimages", as well as her novel, "The Flood", describe her childhood in a community of refugee pyschoanalysts in Topeka, Kansas. She is also an anthropologist who studies equity issues in public schools. Her essays and stories have been published widely, and she is the recipient of numerous literary awards.

Eva Kollisch's most recent book, "The Ground Under My Feet", describes her youth in Baden, amidst growing Nazism and her escape on the Kindertransport. She is also the author of "Girl in Movement", a memoir of her early years in the United States. She taught German, Comparative Literature, and Women's Studies at Sarah Lawrence College for over 30 years and is professor emerita.

Bruno Schwebel fled from Vienna to Paris with his family in 1938 at the age of ten. After sojourns in Lisbon and Casablanca, Schwebel came to Mexico City, where he serverd, among other things, as technical director of Mexico's largest TV network. In 1976 he began publishing stories in Spanish and then in German translations. His book "As Luck would have It: My Exile in France and Mexico. Recollections and Stories" was published by Ariadne Press.

Lore Segal's new collection, "Shakespeare's Kitchen", evokes the comic melancholy of the outsider. Two previous books, "Other People's Houses" and "Her First American", describe her life in England after escaping on the Kindertransport, the experiences of a young refugee in America. She is the recipient of several literary awards and has contributed to The New Yorker, among other publications.

Leo Spitzer, who was born in a refugee community in La Paz, is the author of "Hotel Bolivia", "Lives In Between: Assimilation and Marginality in Austria, Brazil and West Africa", among others. He is Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor of History at Dartmouth College, and has taught at Columbia University. he is the recipient of a number of fellowships and awards in social history.

VENUE
Austrian Cultural Forum NY, 11 East 52nd Street, New York, NY 10022

RESERVATIONS
Free Admission. Reservations necessary. Call (212) 319 5300 ext. 222 or e-mail reservations@acfny.org