{"id":5882,"date":"2018-11-19T19:59:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T19:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=5882"},"modified":"2018-11-19T19:59:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T19:59:24","slug":"jewish-book-month-school-visits-in-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/jewish-book-month-school-visits-in-montreal\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Book Month school visits in Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/talyamarsha.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5883\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/talyamarsha.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1256\" height=\"1115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/talyamarsha.jpg 1256w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/talyamarsha-150x133.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/talyamarsha-300x266.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/talyamarsha-1024x909.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/talyamarsha-1200x1065.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Talya Pardo, librarian-extraordinaire at the Jewish Public Library, organized a wonderful set of school visits in Montreal in honour of Jewish Book Month. I met many awesome students, teachers and school staff! <\/p>\n<p>Doing book presentations on Don&#8217;t Tell the Enemy is always difficult because it&#8217;s an emotional story about a real girl who was exceptionally brave and compassionate at a time when most people were not. As I said to one group of students, writing this story was like cutting out my heart. Talking about Krystia, Dolek and Leon during Jewish Book Month was especially poignant, as many kids in the audience had lost family members in the Holocaust. That, mixed with the current violence that&#8217;s been directed at Jewish people in these last number of weeks, made it sometimes hard to speak without a catch of tears.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Talya, for your hospitality. And thank you to the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, for travel funding.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Dont-Tell-the-Enemy-CVR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Dont-Tell-the-Enemy-CVR.jpg\" alt=\"Don&#039;t Tell the Enemy CVR\" width=\"1506\" height=\"2304\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Dont-Tell-the-Enemy-CVR.jpg 1506w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Dont-Tell-the-Enemy-CVR-98x150.jpg 98w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Dont-Tell-the-Enemy-CVR-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Dont-Tell-the-Enemy-CVR-669x1024.jpg 669w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Dont-Tell-the-Enemy-CVR-1200x1836.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talya Pardo, librarian-extraordinaire at the Jewish Public Library, organized a wonderful set of school visits in Montreal in honour of Jewish Book Month. I met many awesome students, teachers and school staff! 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