Qian Julie Wang
By Qian Julie Wang
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Opinion For your Seder table discussion: Three stories of oppression, liberation and empowerment
As the war in Ukraine makes painfully clear, suffering at the hands of violent oppressors is hardly a thing of the past and certainly not ancient history. Inhumanity persists through time immemorial, and even a celebration of liberation is tinged with the reality that no people are free until all are free. Here are three…
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Culture ‘It was not hunger. Fear was all I tasted.’
Qian Julie Wang’s memoir, “Beautiful Country,” tells of her childhood as an undocumented Chinese immigrant in New York. Now a lawyer and the founder of the Jews of Color group at Central Synagogue, Wang says she encounters immigrant children today who remind her of her upbringing tempered by persistent hunger and the fear of being…
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