Jane Lazarre, Author at Public Seminar

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The Politics of Motherhood

The critical importance of voice and the dangers of silence

December 30, 2018 • by Jane Lazarre

Jane Lazarre presented the following essay in October, 2018, at a conference sponsored by Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona (CCCB), on the occasion of Lazarre's first book, The Mother Knot, now published in Spanish by Las Afueras pressas El Nudo Materno. Originally titled, “Maternity, Activism and Democracy,” it was followed by ...

Interview with Jane Lazarre

Deborah Kalb sits down with Lazarre to discuss her latest book

September 2, 2018 • by Deborah Kalb and Jane Lazarre

Q: Why did you decide to write this memoir about your father, and how long did it take you to complete it? A: I decided to write this memoir about my father over 40 years after his death for many reasons – some formal and intellectual, and some in Toni Morrison’s ...

The Communist and the Communist’s Daughter

A Memoir

September 6, 2017 • by Jane Lazarre

My father was a Communist Party organizer, a fervent believer in the political philosophy of Marxism-Leninism, the intellectual foundation of what became a faith, ideas that had nurtured and inspired him since his adolescence in “the old country” of Kishinev, Romania. Or Russia -- he would always add -- Russia, Romania ...

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