“Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp” brings into focus the dark episode in American history, set in motion by the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, when the U.S. government imprisoned in detention camps tens of thousands of Japanese Americans due to the unfounded fear of anyone in America with even “one drop” of Japanese blood.
Among the incarcerated were over 2,000 members of mixed-race families — including Elaine Buchman Yoneda, a Jewish American woman, Karl Yoneda, her Japanese American husband, and their 3-year-old son, Tommy.
Tracy Slater’s intimate account explores painful choices and conflicting loyalties, including Elaine’s leaving behind her white daughter from a previous marriage, the upheaval and violence that followed, and the Yonedas’ quest to survive with their children’s lives intact and their family safe and whole.
Slater is an American writer from Boston living temporarily in Toronto, although usually based in Japan, her husband’s country. Her essays and articles have been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post, among other places. Slater’s first book, “The Good Shufu: Finding Love, Self and Home on the Far Side of the World,” was published in 2015. Slater received her doctorate in English and American literature from Brandeis University and taught for 10 years at various Boston-area universities, as well as in men’s and women’s prisons throughout Massachusetts.
Co-sponsored by the Brandeis University Alumni Association.
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