{"id":42776,"date":"2023-11-24T01:39:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T09:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=42776"},"modified":"2023-11-23T19:53:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T03:53:29","slug":"double-book-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2023\/11\/24\/double-book-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Double book launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/toc.24.Marina-Sonkina-book-Ukrainian-Portraits.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-42781\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/toc.24.Marina-Sonkina-book-Ukrainian-Portraits.jpg\" alt=\"image - Ukrainian Portraits book cover\" width=\"240\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/toc.24.Marina-Sonkina-book-Ukrainian-Portraits.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/toc.24.Marina-Sonkina-book-Ukrainian-Portraits-188x300.jpg 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>Join writer Marina Sonkina in celebrating the release of her two new books: <em>Ukrainian Portraits: Diaries from the Border<\/em> and <em>Rupture and Other Stories<\/em>. About <em>Ukrainian Portraits<\/em>, she writes: \u201cAt the end of March of 2022, I traveled to the Ukrainian-Polish border to volunteer at a refugee evacuation centre. Much as I tried to prepare myself psychologically, what I encountered face-to-face didn\u2019t fit any of my expectations: I saw a disaster on a massive scale. I went to volunteer as someone who speaks Russian, Ukrainian and other languages; someone who had been a refugee herself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/toc.24.Marina-Sonkina-book-Rupture.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-42782\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/toc.24.Marina-Sonkina-book-Rupture.jpg\" alt=\"image - Rupture book cover\" width=\"240\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/toc.24.Marina-Sonkina-book-Rupture.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/toc.24.Marina-Sonkina-book-Rupture-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>I soon realized that what the Ukrainian refugees needed most (apart from practical advice) was to talk about their experiences. They needed to be heard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The double book launch takes place Sunday, Dec. 10, 1:30 p.m., in the Aceman Seniors Lounge at the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver. Nibbles and light refreshments will be provided.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 Courtesy Marina Sonkina<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join writer Marina Sonkina in celebrating the release of her two new books: Ukrainian Portraits: Diaries from the Border and Rupture and Other Stories. About Ukrainian Portraits, she writes: \u201cAt the end of March of 2022, I traveled to the Ukrainian-Polish border to volunteer at a refugee evacuation centre. Much as I tried to prepare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[22106,4526,7389,797],"class_list":["post-42776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-marina-sonkina","tag-memoir","tag-short-stories","tag-ukraine"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}