
Beth Am Women Welcome Author Geri Spieler
Sunday, September 8, 2024 • 5 Elul 5784
3:00 PM - 4:30 PMBeit KehillahCopies of the Book Will Be Available for Purchase and for the Author to Sign
By all accounts, Regina Anuszewicz was a woman ahead of her time. She defied the female norms and stereotypes of the early 1900s and fled the violence unfolding in Warsaw on her own, with an infant. And because she left Poland before the wars, she survived. And because she survived, her granddaughter, Geri Spieler, can share Regina’s unforgettable story in the new book, Regina of Warsaw: Love, Loss and Liberation.
From the first page, readers are transported to 1906 Bialystok, Poland, where Regina Anuszewicz was visiting her sister and looking forward to a late June stroll along the Bialy River. It should have been an exciting time to stay overnight in the women's boarding house, but a violent pogrom blasted those plans as a rage of violence shook the town and Regina's hopes. Russian soldiers and police swarmed the streets and homes, and once they reached her sister's boarding house, all Regina could do was hide inside a closet, barely able to breathe as she heard screams and people begging for their lives. The trauma of that day shaped Regina's life and ignited her passion to take a more active role in fighting antisemitism.
Regina of Warsaw is the first of the Regina trilogy, a historical fiction novel based on her grandmother’s life.
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Geri Spieler is the immediate past president of the San Francisco Peninsula branch of the California Writers Club and has authored articles in numerous publications. She has written for the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Forbes, and as a Research Director for Gartner, a global technology advising company, and she was a regular contributor to Truthdig.com, an award-winning investigative reporting website, and the Huffington Post. She is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, the Authors Guild, the Women’s National Book Association, the Internet Society, and the Book Critics Circle.
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