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JGSGB Chilterns Regional Group – Tue 3rd May 2022 at 7.00 pm – Eve Weinberg – From Tashkent to Paris – the story of a Bukharian Jewish family’s triumph over adversity

Due to the bank holiday, there is no JGSGB meeting on Sunday 1st May, but our next weekday meeting in the JGSGB Virtual Meeting Programme is a specialist talk from the Chilterns Regional Group by Zoom on an Oriental theme.

Please note the earlier start.


Date: Tuesday 3rd May 2022

Time: 19.00 London, 14:00 New York, 11:00 San Francisco, 21:00 Jerusalem 

Title: From Tashkent to Paris - the story of a Bukharian Jewish family’s triumph over adversity 

Speaker: Eve Weinberg 

Description: A true story about Revolution, occupation and survival. This memoir about Aron and Adina Abramoff, the author’s maternal grandparents, depicts their tranquil life in the early 1900s in Kokand and Tashkent, Central Asia; their escape from Stalin’s Russia in the 1930s and their miraculous survival from Nazi persecution in France during WWII. Eve feels privileged to be able to give you a glimpse into their turbulent lives, and although the book makes poignant reading, it is also life-affirming.

About Eve Weinberg 

Eve was born and bred in London, although her parents were born in Bukhara and Tashkent. They were a multilingual household, alternating between Russian, French, Bukharian and English! She finally opted for French and obtained a joint Honours degree in French and Music in the early 1970s. She spent her working life as a secondary school French teacher and a piano teacher to many local children in Woodside Park, a north London suburb, where she lived with her husband and 2 children for 46 years. She was very involved with her local synagogue in a voluntary capacity, helping with Hebrew reading, visiting the lonely and elderly, and latterly visiting Jewish patients in Barnet hospital. 

In February 2020, just before the pandemic, she and her husband decided to make Aliyah to join their daughter and her family in Jerusalem. 

Details to buy the book: the book can be bought by emailing fromtashkenttoparis@gmail.com 

After the talk, there will be an opportunity for Q&A on the talk. 

The invitation to register is below, but please keep it to yourself! 

If you have problems joining, please email chairman@jgsgb.org.uk, preferably in the 15 minutes before the meeting proper starts. 

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Leigh Dworkin is inviting you to register for a scheduled Zoom meeting. 


Topic: JGSGB Chilterns RG: "From Tashkent to Paris-the story of a Bukharian Jewish family’s triumph over adversity" by Eve Weinberg 

When: May 3, 2022 07:00 PM London  

Register in advance for this meeting: 

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtdeCrrD4iHtYMy-XZ6lqeQk577fJ8or7G 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. 

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Stay safe and keep well! 

Leigh Dworkin 

Chairman, JGSGB

 

 

 

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