Meet the Author - Jane Ziegelman

Thursday, April 5 at 7 p.m.

Jane Ziegelman, author of 97 Orchard will be our featured speaker on Thursday, April 5 at 7 p.m.

In 97 Orchard, Jane Ziegelman explores the culinary life that was the heart and soul of New York’s Lower East Side around the turn of the twentieth century—a city within a city, where Germans, Irish, Italians, and Eastern European Jews attempted to forge a new life. Through the experiences of five families, all of them residents of 97 Orchard Street, she takes readers on a vivid and unforgettable tour, from impossibly cramped tenement apartments down dimly lit stairwells where children played and neighbors socialized, beyond the front stoops where immigrant housewives found respite and company, and out into the hubbub of the dirty, teeming streets.

About Jane Ziegelman

Jane Ziegelman is the director of the Tenement Museum’s culinary center and the founder and director of Kids Cook!, a multi-ethnic cooking program for children. Her writing on food has appeared in numerous publications, and she is the coauthor of Foie Gras: A Passion. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

All author programs will feature a book signing and refreshments. Books will be available for purchase at each event.

This program is part of our One Book, One Community series. The book selected for the town-wide read is 97 Orchard by Jane Ziegelman. The book selected for young readers is The Inquisitor’s Apprentice by Chris Moriarty. Each book is set around the turn of the twentieth century in New York City and centers on the immigrant experience in a unique place and time in history.

Additional parking for evening and weekend Library programs available on Thorndal Circle (behind Nielsen's).