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September 25, 2001
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Smith College and Forbes Library Kick Off
"Sundays at Two" Lecture Series for 2001-02

NORTHAMPTON, Mass.-Eugene Pogany, author of "In My Brother's Image: Twin Brothers Separated by Faith After the Holocaust," will be the speaker at the first event in the 2001-02 "Sundays at Two" lecture series sponsored by the Friends of Forbes Library and Smith College. The event, which is open free to the public, will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 14, in Neilson Library Browsing Room at Smith College.


In what Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel has described as a "power-packed and poignant narrative" of one family's experience during the Holocaust," Pogany tells the story of an unusual family conflict. His book is the moving story of identical twin brothers-Pogany's father and his father's brother-who were born in Hungary but raised as devout Catholic converts until World War II unraveled their family. Pogany's father returned to his Jewish faith while his brother became a Catholic priest.


Pogany, a practicing clinical psychologist in Boston, is a frequent speaker on anti-Semitism and Jewish-Catholic relations. He has lectured and facilitated workshops regionally and nationally on interfaith family conflict and combating cultural/religious bias and racism and is the author of many articles and essays. "In My Brother's Image," his first full-length book, is a historical family memoir that encapsulates the drama of a family torn apart by the Holocaust even as it focuses a wider, impartial lens on the historical rupture between Jews and Catholics. The author has participated in a number of television, radio and newspaper interviews about the book since it was published in 2000.


In addition to his private practice, Pogany is a clinical instructor in psychology at the Boston University School of Medicine and consults at hospitals, clinics and educational and religious institutions in eastern Massachusetts. He is the son-in-law of Florence and Maurice Bond of Northampton.

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