YIVO PRESENTS: TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 2007 / 7 PM GALICIA MON AMOUR: LEON WIESELTIER in conversation with DANIEL MENDELSOHN
Leon Wieseltier, author of Kaddish, is the literary editor of The New Republic Daniel Mendelsohn, author of the recently published HE LOST: A Search for Six of Six Million, is the Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard College An evening with two of America's pre-eminent critics and authors as they discuss the torments and exhilarations of their pilgrimages to the past. Last fall, Leon Wieseltier traveled for the first time to the remains of his parents' towns in Galicia. As it happens, Daniel Mendelsohn's family, also largely destroyed in the Holocaust, came from a town only a short distance away. These two distinguished Galitsianers will compare notes on the ruins of their common origins. VENUE: YIVO Institute at the Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York City DATE/TIME: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 / 7 p.m. TICKETS: $15 /$ 7 students - Box Office: 917.606.8200 / www.ticketweb.com Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
