Mar

3 2016

Author Series: Carolina Israelite by Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett

7:00PM - 8:00PM  

Mittleman Jewish Community Center 6651 SW Capitol Hwy
Portland, OR

Contact Mara Zellinger
503.535.3617
MZellinger@OregonJCC.org
http://oregonjcc.org

Author Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett with speak about her new book, Carolina Israelite.
How Harry Golden Made Us Care about Jews, the South, and Civil Rights.

This first comprehensive biography of Jewish American writer and humorist Harry Golden (1903-1981)—author of the 1958 national bestseller Only in America—illuminates a remarkable life intertwined with the rise of the civil rights movement, Jewish popular culture, and the sometimes precarious position of Jews in the South and across America during the 1950s.

Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett is a writer living in Portland, Oregon. She worked as a journalist for more than thirty years in New England and the Pacific Northwest.

Individual Event ticket

Cost: $8 guest. $5 member

Series Pass

Cost: $20 guest. $12 member.

Sponsor: MJCC