Who and what and how do we come to be were it not for family? What endures when those lives are endangered or taken away?
LUCAS MAEHARA ROTMAN is a singer-songwriter, teacher, and descendant of families seized into the whirlwinds of two of the 20th century’s worst atrocities: the Jewish Holocaust and the Japanese internment of World War II. As such, his very existence is a miracle.
He comes to us bearing letters, artifacts, stories that must be told, and songs that must be sung: “Dear Miki: An All-American Family Saga.”
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Lucas Maehara Rotman
The Loving Case: Loving v. Virginia, 1967
Manzanar Concentration Camp: Japanese-American internment
Shofuso Japanese House and Garden: Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia
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Mentioned on this week's show:
LUCAS MAEHARA ROTMAN, singer, songwriter, teacher
DEAR MIKI: AN ALL-AMERICAN FAMILY SAGA
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