9:15: Morning Music with Reb David
10:15:  Adult Program - Lily Willens: "The Three Waves of Jewish Migration to China - 1850-1940

Born to Jewish Russian parents who fled the Bolshevik Revolution, Lillian Willens grew up in Shanghai, China where she attended the French lycée, the Collège Municipal Français. She lived "stateless" during World War II under the Japanese occupation of Shanghai and later witnessed the arrival of the communist People’s Liberation Army.  After earning a Ph.D. in French Literature, she taught at Boston College and MIT and worked for the Peace Corps and US AID.   

Her book Stateless in Shanghai, now in its second printing, was published in November 2009 by Earnshaw Books (Hong Kong/Shanghai).  It recounts Willens’ life and trials in a China collapsing under the weight of foreign invaders and civil war.