Lore Segal in the News

LBI's spring 2026 exhibition and accompanying programs honor author Lore Segal. Through photographs, manuscripts, rare books, and archival materials, the exhibition traces Segal’s journey from prewar Vienna and exile on a Kindertransport to her emergence as a singular voice in American literature shaped by displacement, language, and moral inquiry. The exhibition opened to the public on January 22 and has received considerable attention in the press.

The exhibition came recommended in the Book Club newsletter of the Washington Post by critic Ron Charles. Cressida Leyshon, Deputy Fiction Editor of the New Yorker, shouted out the exhibit in the magazine's "Goings On" newsletter. Jewish Telegraphic Agency ran an article about the exhibition and its accompanying programming by managing ideas editor Andrew Silow-Carroll, who pointed out the literary singularity of Segal's Other People's Houses as a Holocaust novel. The article was cross-published in The Forward and the Times of Israel. Karin Hanta, the curator of And That's True Too, wrote a note in the Association of Jewish Libraries newsletter, with some background on the exhibition's creation. Finally, Kuvinkl's Guide for February recommended the exhibition to its subscribers.