The Czech/American Reading Circle
The Nebraska Czechs of Lincoln are proud to sponsor the Czech/American Reading Circle. Started in January, 2019, the Reading Circle shares significant books about, by, for, and important to, people of Czech Heritage.
Attendees are not required to have read the book being discussed, however, it helps to have some familiarity with it, and we encourage all participants to contribute any relevant information they may have.
Please join us! The circle meets the last Tuesday of each month (except December) at 6:15 pm central time
on ZOOM. Everyone is welcome.
Please contact the following or any Board Member for additional information and/or to get your Zoom Link.
Lois Shimerda Rood
on ZOOM. Everyone is welcome.
Please contact the following or any Board Member for additional information and/or to get your Zoom Link.
Lois Shimerda Rood
402-570-2333 lois@loisrood.com
Layne Pierce
402-770-5029 layne.pierce@yahoo.com
Mila Saskova-Pierce
402-770-4624 msaskova-pierce1@unl.edu
The Czech/American Reading Circle is continuing with its seventh year
of reviewing great books. Please join us the last Tuesday each month.
The Czech/American Reading Circle is continuing with its seventh year
of reviewing great books. Please join us the last Tuesday each month.
Click here for a high resolution copy of the 2025 Reading Circle Brochure.
Český čtenářský kroužek
MEETING INFORMATION:
Join Zoom: 6:15 p.m.Presentation: 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
THE ZOOM LINK:
Our Zoom Link is the same for ALL of the Reading Circle Sessions.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87384971615?pwd=anI0UXQ4T0I3Qk44RE16emhISGI5QT09
Meeting ID: 873 8497 1615; Passcode: 123553
Please Join Us for our April
Nebraska Czechs of Lincoln Reading Circle!
Nebraska Czechs of Lincoln Reading Circle!
BOOK: Love Letter in Cuneiform
AUTHOR: Tomáš Zmeškal
TRANSLATOR: Alez Zucker
LEADER: Dr. Hana Waisserova
Past Reading Circle Brochures:
SUMMARY:
Love Letter in Cuneiform (The Margellos World Republic of Letters). Translated by Alez Zucker, currently the most prominent translator of the Czech literature, who will also join us for the book presentation.
Set in Czechoslovakia between the 1940s and the 1990s, Tomáš Zmeškal’s stimulating novel focuses on one family’s tragic story of love and the unspoken. Josef meets his wife, Kveta, before the Second World War at a public lecture on Hittite culture. Kveta chooses to marry Josef over their mutual friend Hynek, but when her husband is later arrested and imprisoned for an unnamed crime, Kveta gives herself to Hynek in return for help and advice. The author explores the complexities of what is not spoken, what cannot be said, the repercussions of silence after an ordeal, the absurdity of forgotten pain, and what it is to be an outsider. Note: the book is easily available via Amazon
LEADER: HANA WAISSEROVA, PH.D., is an associate professor of practice of Czech and Central European Studies and an affiliate of the Harris Centre for Judaic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She earned Ph.D. in Anglophone transnational literature from Palacky University, CR, and Gender Graduate Certificate from TAMU, TX. She coauthored a book, Women’s Artistic Dissent. Repelling Totalitarianism in Pre1989 Czechoslovakia (Lexington Books, 2023). She has published articles concerning South Asian and Central European women's transnational literature, women's totalitarian experiences, women dissidents and their activism, medieval Czech literature, and Czech American culture in Nebraska with Litteraria Pragensia, Kosmas, Czechoslovak and Central European Journal, Czech Language News, Literature, Media and Cultural Studies, American and British Studies Annual, Great Plains Quarterly, Fema. Prior to working in academia, she traveled widely in Europe, Asia, and East Africa, where she worked as an outdoor guide and a publicist.
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