Book Events
A Jewish Women’s Prayer Book, by Aliza Lavie
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Title: A Jewish Women’s Prayer Book
Date: November 16, 2008
Time: tba
Location: Leventhal - Sidman JCC, Newton, MA
Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Research Associate Aliza Lavie will speak about her book “A Jewish Woman’s Prayer Book” an anthology originally published in Hebrew (2005) that draws from a wide range of sources, both geographically and historically, presenting a variety of Jewish texts and traditions to commemorate every season and every passage in the cycle of life. This presentation is part of the annual Boston Jewish Book Fair.
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Dearest Anne: A Tale of Impossible Love, by Judith Katzir
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Title: Dearest Anne: A Tale of Impossible Love: A conversation with the author Judith Katzir
Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Time: 3:30 pm
Location: Liberman-Miller Lecture Hall, Women’s Studies Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Best-selling Israeli novelist Judith Katzir recreates a writer’s coming-of-age during the 1970s in her novel “Dearest Anne.” When Rivi returns to Israel decades after a turbulent affair with her female literature teacher, she recovers the emotionally charged journals she once addressed to Anne Frank. As Rivi reads them again, readers experience her teenage angst and the jolt of her illicit affair that ended in scandal. Provocative and heartbreaking, the book gracefully echoes Frank’s famous diary and at the same time engages with its tragic heroine, revealing universal truths about the transition from girl to woman. Katzir will discuss her identity as a Jewish, Israeli, woman writer, as well as the connections to Anne Frank and the memory of Holocaust in Israel.
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