WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2011, 4PM
Rapaporte Treasure Hall, Goldfarb Library, Brandeis University
The program will include a reading from Hold on to the Sun by the author and an opportunity for book signing. A reception will follow.
About the book: In this portrait of the artist as a young woman, Michal Govrin offers a kaleidoscope of stories and essays. Populated by mysterious and real people, each tale is in some way a search for meaning in a post-Holocaust world. Characters irrationally and humanely find reason for hope in a world that offers little. Essays describe Govrin's visits to Poland, where her mother had survived a death camp, as a young adult. In a multiplicity of voices, the haunting stories capture the depths of denial and the exuberance of youth, raising an image of a world utterly different from the one we know.
Hold on the Sun is part of the Reuben/Rifkin Jewish Women Writers Series: a joint project of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute and the Feminist Press.
About the author: Michal Govrin is one of Israel's most important writers. Selected in 2010 by the Salon du Livre of Paris as one of the most influential writers of the past thirty years, she has published ten works of poetry, fiction, and essays. She has collaborated with artist Liliane Klapish and philosopher Jacques Derrida, and has received the Kugel Literary Prize for her novel The Name.
Free and open to the public.
Books available for purchase at the event.
Parking available in Tower Lot (E) Lot
Please RSVP at www.brandeis.edu/israelcenter/
For more information: 781-736-2154
Co-sponsored by the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, and the Hebrew Language Program.
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2011 — 7:00PM
Mandel Center Atrium, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Described as "an outstanding addition to Holocaust collections," Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust: A Jewish Family's Untold Story is a stunning portrayal of a German-Jewish family's daily life under the Nazi regime in the late 1930's and early 1940's. Author Uta Larkey will explain how she came upon hundreds of handwritten letters and diaries brought to the U.S. by a young émigré from Essen, Germany, the late physician and Holocaust survivor Marianne Steinberg-Ostrand. The letters and journals highlight the agonizing questions faced by two generations of the Kauffman-Steinberg family and the toll exacted when a close-knit family is suddenly spread across three continents.
Parking is available in E Lot
To watch a video about this book, click here.
To purchase the book, click here.
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