2024 NATIONAL MEDAL
for Museum and Library Service Finalist

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Growing Up Jewish in Shanghai

Lena Feld, a Brandeis National Committee member, was born in Shanghai, and currently lives in Metuchen. She will share her extraordinary life stories with us. Lena's grandparents settled in Shanghai fleeing pogroms in Russia, but by the time Mao Zedong established the People's Republic, her family left China. Many insights from Lena's past relate to current times.