Miri Kubovy will lead a discussion of the first part (Momik) of David Grossman's Holocaust-themed novel See Under: Love.

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About SEE UNDER:LOVE

In this powerful novel by one of Israel's most prominent writers, Momik, the only child of Holocaust survivors, grows up in the shadow of his parents' history. Determined to exorcise the Nazi "beast" from their shattered lives and prepare for a second holocaust he knows is coming, Momik increasingly shields himself from all feeling and attachment. But through the stories his great-uncle tells him―the same stories he told the commandant of a Nazi concentration camp―Momik, too, becomes "infected with humanity." Grossman's masterly fusing of vision, thought, and emotion make See Under: Love a luminously imaginative and profoundly affecting work.

About MIRI KUBOVY

Miri Kubovy moved to New York City in 2010 from Harvard University where she was the director of Modern Hebrew Studies, and a Professor of Near Eastern Civilizations for 20 years, and a member of the Harvard Center for Jewish Studies.
She came to Harvard from Yale University, where she had taught for seventeen years. She has translated three books and published numerous articles on modern Hebrew literature, especially on the narrative of S.Y. Agnon (Nobel 1966), on avant-garde Israeli poetry (especially Yona Wollach and Maya Bejerano), on David Grossman, on the young writers of the the last 20 years - Etgar Keret, Orly Castel- Bloom, Sami Berdugo - and on postmodernism and post-Zionism, Center and Periphery.

Professor Kubovy is the recipient of the 1990 Yale University Excellence Teaching Prize, as one of the five best professors in the entire university, and other academic awards. Since she accepted the professorship at Harvard in 1991, she received 5 teaching prizes at Harvard as well.
She was elected a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences (Ct.) in 1991. In 1995, she was made Honorary Professor at the Free University of Berlin, where she teaches special seminars.

Currently, Professor Kubovy is teaching Cultural Studies, Israeli literature, and Israeli cinema at Hunter College in the Jewish Studies Program.
She has also been teaching and lecturing in NY at City College -CUNY, and at the New School University.