An Author Talk With David Abromowitz
Join us to discuss “The Foxtail Legacy,” by David Abromowitz. Learn about the stories behind this epic Jewish immigrant story and the inspiration behind the Itzkowitz family. He will be interviewed by Collette Phillips, author of “The Includers: The 7 Traits of Culturally Savvy, Anti-Racist Leaders,” and the president and CEO of Collette Phillips Communication.
The event will include an interview, audience Q+A, and book signing.
The event will begin at 7:00 PM. Doors will open at 6:30 PM.
Tickets:
$18 (Admission + Book)
$10 (Admission Only)
About The Foxtail Legacy:
David Abromowitz's debut novel carries the reader along on an epic immigrant journey across three continents.
Jacob Itzkowitz, a teenager with a knack for handling horses, leaves behind his village of Shavlan and the anti-Semitism of Czarist Russia to seek his fortune in the 1880s gold rush boom in South Africa. His skills and brashness attract the attention of a Boer leader who convinces Jacob to undertake a dangerous, clandestine mission. After completing the harrowing task and collecting his reward, Jacob stealthily returns to Shavlan to take a bride, Shira —a spirited young woman who conceals her own secret. Together they venture to build a new life in early 20th Century America, where Shira’s secret ripples through two more generations and provokes intra-family strife. Their strong wills enable Jacob and Shira to succeed in a strange new land, while creating clashes, fueling feuds, and sowing the seeds for a complex legal battle over inheritance.
Compulsively readable and propelled by a deep compassion for its characters, "The Foxtail Legacy" explores the external and internal pressures on three generations who straddle the chasm between the Old World and the New, and the legacy of a patriarch in relentless pursuit of the American Dream.
About David Abromowitz:
David Abromowitz is an advocate, policy shaper, believer in opportunity youth, affordable housing attorney and writer. Most recently, David founded the New Power Project, a national effort to support people who have grown up experiencing poverty in running for local elective office. A frequent author of op-eds and policy papers during his career as an attorney at Goulston & Storrs, as the Chief Public Policy Officer of YouthBuild USA and as a Senior Fellow at the Center for America Progress, David’s writings have appeared in the Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun, USA Today, Huffington Post and many other publications.
An active civic leader, David serves on the Board of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston, B’nai B’rith Housing New England, and the Princeton Class of 1978 Foundation, and he previously served on the boards of The Equity Trust, YouthBuild USA, and the New Economy Coalition, among others. A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School, his contributions have been recognized by numerous awards, including the Affordable Housing Vision Award of the National Housing & Rehabilitation Association, the Distinguished Achievement Award of B'Nai B'rith Housing New England, and the Lifetime Achiever award of the National Law Journal.
David is a proud New Jersey native now living in the Boston area. The Foxtail Legacy is his first novel.
About Collette Phillips:
Colette Phillips is President and CEO of Colette Phillips Communications, Founder and President of Get Konnected! and The GK Fund. For 30 years, Colette has been a powerful voice and effective agent of change in one of America’s oldest and most tribal cities. An immigrant Black woman from Antigua described by Boston Magazine as “Boston’s Great Connector,” and Boston Globe cites her for “changing the Conversation about Diversity in Boston,” Colette has brought her passion, power and wisdom to publications and boardrooms around the globe. The president and CEO of Colette Phillips Communications, Inc. and founder of the multicultural professional and business networking organization Get Konnected!, Colette has spent a lifetime making workplaces more inclusive, opening them to new markets, talent and possibilities.