EJC Author Reading: Karen Treiger

In this delightful book, Karen Treiger places herself in the long arc of history and invites the reader to join her time travel. Bringing her ancestors to life, the author shares the stories of five immigrant Jewish families who settled in Seattle and Portland. Two families began their journey in Portland in distinct waves of Jewish immigration. Those in Seattle shaped the city’s early years and defined its gilded age. This book tells history through the eyes of Jewish merchants who settled in the Pacific Northwest with hopes and dreams for themselves and especially their children.

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Karen Treiger was born in Seattle and attended Barnard College and NYU Law School, where she served as the Editor in Chief of the Law Review. She left her law practiced in 2015 to write a book about her in-law’s survival during World War II. The book, My Soul is Filled with Joy: A Holocaust Story won the PNWA Nancy Pearl Book Award for Best Memoir and the Bronze Medal in World History from the Independent Publisher’s Association. Karen is an active volunteer with her synagogue and Limmud Seattle and serves in Seattle's Holocaust Center's Speaker's Bureau. She is married to Shlomo Goldberg and has four adult children and is thrilled to have graduated to the status of Bubbi.