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SUMMARY:MY NAME IS STRAMER
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DESCRIPTION:Monday, November 2, 2026 at 6:30pmYIVO15 W. 16th St., New York, NY 10011In
person, free admission, registerZoom livestream, free admission, register
Though he returned from America penniless, Nathan Stramer still daydreams
of a better life, as he struggles to make ends meet back in the small
Polish town of Tarnów. Raising six children with his wife Rywka, he chases
hare-brained schemes to make money while she fantasizes about a trip to the
seaside. Crammed into a two-room apartment on down-at-heel Goldhammer
Street, the family gets by on very little, and everyone has to pitch into
Nathan’s latest ventures, including an ill-fated Stramer family café.
As the years pass, their children begin to take steps into a changing
world. While Nathan and Rywka try to hold the center of their raucous
family life together, national conflicts begin to escalate in Europe, and
sinister forces creep into the Stramers’ world that they don’t yet
understand. Author Mikołaj Łoziński tells the tragic story of the
interwar years through the ordinary triumphs and struggles of this
sprawling Polish-Jewish family. 
Join us for a discussion with Łoziński about the newly-released English
translation of his historical fiction novel My Name is Stramer, in a
discussion led by Irena Grudzińska Gross.
Mikolaj Lozinski is a Polish novelist, screenwriter and photographer. He
has received several awards for his writing, including the Polityka
Passport and the Koscielski Foundation Award. My Name is Stramer, his third
novel, was shortlisted for the prestigious Nike Literary Award and has been
translated into 16 languages. Lozinski lives in Warsaw.
Irena Grudzińska Gross emigrated from her native Poland after student
unrest of 1968. She has taught East-Central European history and literature
at Emory, New York, Boston, and Princeton universities. Her books include
Golden Harvest with Jan T. Gross, Oxford University Press, 2012, Czesław
Miłosz and Joseph Brodsky: Fellowship of Poets, Yale University Press,
2009, and The Scar of Revolution: Tocqueville, Custine and the Romantic
Imagination, University of California Press, 1995. She has edited books on
literature and the transformation process in Central and Eastern Europe and
published numerous book chapters and articles on these subjects in the
international press and periodicals. 
The book talk is co-sponsored by YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
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