Announcements

BOOK DISCUSSION
with
MIRI KUBOVY

Tuesday, November 29, 2016
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Please join us one week from tonight, next Tuesday night, November 29, as we welcome Miri Kubovy, Professor of  Israeli Literature at Hunter College, who will lead a discussion of the first part (Momik) of David Grossman's powerful novel See Under: Love.

Please register on the event page if you plan to attend (the event is free).

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 fusing of vision, thought, and emotion make See Under: Love a luminously imaginative and profoundly affecting work.

About MIRI KUBOVY
Miri Kubovy teaches Cultural Studies, and Israeli literature and cinema at Hunter College. She  was the director of Modern Hebrew Studies at Harvard and a Professor of Near Eastern Civilizations for 20 years, and she taught at Yale University for 17 years. She has translated three books and published numerous articles on modern Hebrew literature, especially on S.Y. Agnon, on avant-garde Israeli poetry (Yona Wollach & Maya Bejerano), on David Grossman, on the young writers of the last 20 years - Etgar Keret, Orly Castel- Bloom, Sami Berdugo - and on post-modernism and post-Zionism. Professor Kubovy received the 1990 Yale University Excellence Teaching Prize, as one of the five best professors in the entire university, and she received 5 teaching prizes at Harvard as well.