Forbes Library is excited to be participating in the Yiddish Book Center's "Coming to America" Reading Groups for Public Libraries. These four book discussion events are now virtual and rescheduled for the Fall. The series begins on September 18 with Motl the Cantor's Son by Sholem Aleichem. Forbes is one of twenty-two public libraries from eighteen states that have been selected to be part of the program. The "Coming to America" library project is part of the Yiddish Book Center's Decade of Discovery, a major new initiative that the Center is launching in 2020 in conjunction with its 40th anniversary. "Coming to America" is a reading and discussion program to engage teens and adults in thinking about the experience of immigrants encountering America. The groups will introduce libraries and the public to Yiddish literature in translation within the context of the broader experience of immigrants adjusting to life in the United States--a topic as relevant today as it was a hundred years ago.