{"id":21561,"date":"2026-08-14T19:08:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T17:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/?p=21561"},"modified":"2026-08-17T16:22:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T14:22:35","slug":"my-name-is-stramer-book-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2026\/08\/14\/my-name-is-stramer-book-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"MY NAME IS STRAMER"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Monday, November 2, 2026 at 6:30pm<br><a href=\"https:\/\/yivo.org\/My-Name-is-Stramer\">YIVO<\/a><\/strong><br>15 W. 16th St., New York, NY 10011<br>In person, free admission, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/secure2.convio.net\/yivo\/site\/Ticketing?view=Tickets&amp;id=106614\">register<\/a><\/strong><br>Zoom livestream, free admission, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/secure2.convio.net\/yivo\/site\/Ticketing?view=Tickets&amp;id=106615\">register<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:121px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>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 Tarn\u00f3w. 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\u2019s latest ventures, including an ill-fated Stramer family caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\u2019 world that they don\u2019t yet understand. Author&nbsp;<strong>Miko\u0142aj \u0141ozi\u0144ski<\/strong>&nbsp;tells the tragic story of the interwar years through the ordinary triumphs and struggles of this sprawling Polish-Jewish family.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join us for a discussion with \u0141ozi\u0144ski&nbsp;about the newly-released English&nbsp;translation of his historical fiction novel&nbsp;<em>My Name is Stramer<\/em>, in a discussion led by&nbsp;<strong>Irena Grudzi\u0144ska Gross<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:61px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"312\" height=\"312\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2026\/08\/mikolaj-lozinski.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2026\/08\/mikolaj-lozinski.jpg 312w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2026\/08\/mikolaj-lozinski-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2026\/08\/mikolaj-lozinski-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 312px) 100vw, 312px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mikolaj Lozinski<\/strong>&nbsp;is a Polish novelist, screenwriter and photographer. He has received several awards for his writing, including the Polityka Passport and the Koscielski Foundation Award.&nbsp;<em>My Name is Stramer<\/em>, his third novel, was shortlisted for the prestigious Nike Literary Award and has been translated into 16 languages. Lozinski lives in Warsaw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"312\" height=\"312\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2026\/08\/irena-grudzinska_ph.joanna-gromek.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2026\/08\/irena-grudzinska_ph.joanna-gromek.jpg 312w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2026\/08\/irena-grudzinska_ph.joanna-gromek-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2026\/08\/irena-grudzinska_ph.joanna-gromek-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 312px) 100vw, 312px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo by Joanna Gromek<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:24px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Irena Grudzi\u0144ska Gross<\/strong>&nbsp;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&nbsp;<em>Golden Harvest<\/em>&nbsp;with Jan T. Gross, Oxford University Press, 2012,&nbsp;<em>Czes\u0142aw Mi\u0142osz and Joseph Brodsky: Fellowship of Poets<\/em>, Yale University Press, 2009, and&nbsp;<em>The Scar of Revolution: Tocqueville, Custine and the Romantic Imagination<\/em>, University of California Press, 1995. She has&nbsp;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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The book talk is co-sponsored by <\/em>YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"265\" height=\"132\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-14-131047.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21572\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 Tarn\u00f3w. 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Author Miko\u0142aj \u0141ozi\u0144ski tells the tragic story of the interwar years through the ordinary triumphs and struggles of this sprawling Polish-Jewish family. \nJoin us for a discussion with \u0141ozi\u0144ski about the newly-released English translation of his historical fiction novel My Name is Stramer, in a discussion led by Irena Grudzi\u0144ska Gross.\nMikolaj 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.\nIrena Grudzi\u0144ska 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. 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