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Practicing History Without a License: How I Wrote My Book on World War I

BOLLI 60 Turner Street, Waltham

I will talk about: How I got interested in the topic; my decisions about structure and content; my approach to sources; adventures in the archives; how I learned to write; and how I got the book published.  This event is not open to the public.  

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World War I and American Jews

I will speak on the effects of World War I on the American Jewish community.  Beginning with the mass influx of Jews in the late 1800s through their service as soldiers in France and their experiences after the war, he will describe the Jews’ transformation from “immigrants” to “Americans” in their own eyes and those […]

World War I and American Jews

Beit Sasson--The Sephardic Congregation of Newton 556 Ward Street, Newton

I will speak on the effects of World War I on the American Jewish community.  Beginning with the mass influx of Jews in the late 1800s through their service as soldiers in France and their experiences after the war, he will describe the Jews’ transformation from “immigrants” to “Americans” in their own eyes and those […]

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Author Gene Fax
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My grandfather fought in the 313th Infantry Regiment of the 79th Division. When my brother and I were young, he would regale us with old-soldier stories. Sometime in the 1980s I tried to get his war service record, only to find that most of the personnel files from World War I were destroyed in a fire in 1973. As a substitute I read a history of his regiment, which first made me aware of the assault on Montfaucon; I learned that Company G, my grandfather’s company, had been the first to gain the top of the hill. Digging further, I discovered that little had been written about that bloody and important engagement, save for one or two pages in general histories of the AEF and a few articles in old, obscure military journals.

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