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Descriptions
Classic Program
Senior Focus
Crossing Borders
Sarah Hirschman, Founder
Sarah Hirschman was born in Lithuania into a Russian Jewish family and educated in France and the United States. A reader fluent in several languages, she has always been interested in the reception of literature by groups of different cultural backgrounds. After a 5-year stay in Colombia and work with urban community groups and development projects, she started People and Stories-Gente y Cuentos in Spanish in 1972 in Massachusetts. She developed a methodology that has allowed the program to grow, with trained coordinators conducting programs in both English and Spanish in various parts of the United States as well as in Argentina.