Finding Home (Hungary, 1945)—The Little-Known Postwar Jewish Experience, with Dean Cycon

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Dean Cycon’s debut novel, Finding Home (Hungary, 1945), explores the complex emotional, moral, and economic dynamics facing Jewish concentration camp survivors trying to return to their hometowns after liberation. As the six surviving Jews of Laszlo, Hungary, return home, they seek to restart their lives while struggling to face their former neighbors and friends who became perpetrators, enablers, and bystanders. Their loved ones were all murdered, and their spirits and bodies were brutalized in Auschwitz. Still, they retain the hope of recapturing a semblance of normalcy in the town they called home—only to discover that everything they once possessed has been taken from them in their absence. Join us at the Yiddish Book Center for the Finding Home Reading Tour, a literary and performance experience featuring author Dean Cycon and Jewish music practitioners Bea Carlson (accordion/vocals) and Jason Ditzian (clarinet). This hour-long engagement takes audiences on a journey through several passages of Finding Home, read by Cycon and scored with live klezmer and Hungarian folk music by Carlson and Ditzian. Following the performance there will be a book signing.