Bending Toward the Sun by Leslie Gilbert-Lurie

"This book is heartbreaking yet inspiring, a story told by three generations – the grandmother, who is a child survivor, the mother, a successful American professional, and the daughter, full of talent, promise and hope. At its core, this book is a study of how the Holocaust experience wraps itself around each woman – creating extreme fear of separation, setting off depression, filling mind and memory with haunting evil and indefinable ghosts. Yet it also tells us of hard won wisdom for living distilled from pain and loss, of life force driven by the will to overcome suffering, of Jewishness lost and Jewishness reborn, of unquenchable love – all passed on and shared between the generations through the filter of the Holocaust.

Gripping, exhausting, exciting, devastating – this book is at times hard to read but always impossible to put down."

-- Rabbi Irving Greenberg
Founding President, Jewish Life Network; former Chairman of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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Leslie Gilbert-Lurie Appearances

DATE	LOCATION	VENUE
2010-04-11 7:00 PM	Woodland Hills, CA	TEMPLE ALIYAH 6025 Valley Circle Blvd. Woodland Hills, CA 91367
2010-04-12 11:00 AM	Sherman Oaks, CA	VALLEY BETH SHALOM Sherman Oaks, CA Speaking
2010-04-13 7:00 PM	Beverly Hills, CA	TEMPLE EMANUEL 8844 Burton Way Beverly Hills, CA 90211
2010-04-14 7:00 PM	Agoura, CA	HESCHEL WEST 27400 Canwood Street Agoura, CA 91301
2010-09-19 12:00 PM	Boston, MA	Facing History Survivors Group Luncheon Boston, MA Speaking
2010-10-27 7:00 PM	Beverly Hills, CA	FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES DINNER Beverly Hills Hotel Beverly Hills, CA
2010-10-28 10:00 AM	Laguna Woods, CA	REFORM TEMPLE OF LAGUNA WOODS Laguna Woods, CA Speaking