Join us for the Professor Dan Miron Lecture in Hebrew Literature with award-winning Israeli-American author Ruby Namdar, a talk titled “To the Land That I Will Show You: The never-ending journey of Hebrew language and literature and its fraught relationship with geographic and political boundaries.”
This event is in person at IIJS. Hybrid attendance will be available via Zoom.
Ruby Namdar is an Israeli-American author born and raised in Jerusalem to a family of Iranian-Jewish heritage. His latest novel, The Ruined House (2013), won the Sapir Prize, Israel’s most prestigious literary award. The English edition of The Ruined House (translated by Hillel Halkin) was published in the US by Harper Collins in November 2017. The French edition of the novel (translated by Sarah Tardy) was published in September 2018 by Belfond, and was nominated for the Prix du premier roman étranger 2018. He currently lives in NYC with his wife and two daughters, and teaches Jewish literature, focusing on Biblical and Talmudic narrative.
Supported by the generosity of the Knapp family.
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