Inside This Place, Not Of It: Narratives from Women

Compiled and edited by Robin Levi and Ayelet Waldman (Buy online)

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Out of Exile: The Abducted and Displaced People of Sudan

Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives

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VOICE OF WITNESS/STORYCORPS EVENT AT CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM

Posted on September 8, 2009

THE ART OF LISTENING: Oral Histories from Voice of Witness and StoryCorps

Thursday 17 September 2009, 7pm

Voice of Witness and StoryCorps will co-present an evening at the Contemporary Jewish Museum about the power of oral history to penetrate deeply into individual lives, as well as prompt social and political transformation. Out of Exile editor Craig Walzer will be in conversation with Melvin Reeves, StoryCorps Planner and former Manager, Family Support Services, American Red Cross September 11th Recovery Program. In addition, the evening will feature clips from the StoryCorps archive, as well as live interviews with featured Voice of Witness and StoryCorps participants from around the world. For more information, visit the Contemporary Jewish Museum website.

This event was made possible in part, by the California Arts Council.

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Voice of Witness is a nonprofit book series that empowers those most closely affected by contemporary social injustice. Using oral history as a foundation, the series depicts human rights crises around the world through the stories of the men and women who experience them. Voice of Witness was founded by author Dave Eggers and physician/human rights scholar Lola Vollen, and is the nonprofit division of McSweeney's Books.

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