American Jewish Writing Today
A Symposium on the latest developments in North American Jewish literature. Celebrating 350 years of Jewish life in America
Thursday, April 14, 2005
9:00 am-9:00 pm
Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington
Keynote Address:
Sara Horowitz (Division of Humanities and the Centre for Jewish Studies, York University)
"Mind, Body, Spirit: New American Riffs on the Jewish Question"
Thursday, April 14, 2005
7:30-9:00 pm
UW Hillel, 4745 17th NE Seattle, WA 98105
Free and open to the public
Sarah Horowitz is the author of Voicing the Void: Muteness and Memory in Holocaust Fiction (1997); co-editor of the journal Kerem: Creative Explorations in Judaism; and advisory editor of Jewish American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical and Critical Sourcesbook (1994).
This lecture is free and open to the public. It is being held in association with a symposium on American Jewish Writing Today. Sessions will take place in the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington (Communications 206). If you wish to attend these small group session, please RSVP to the Simpson Center at the e-mail address or telephone number provided below.
Organized by Naomi Sokoloff, Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, and The Samuel and Althea Stroum Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of Washington.
Sponsored by the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Jewish Studies Program, the Samuel and Althea Stroum Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies, the English Department, the Graduate School Fund for Excellence, the Department of Comparative Literature, Nextbook, and UW Hillel.
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