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Max Ticktin Lecture in Judaic Studies
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Speaker: Maya Arad
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Location: Gelman Library, Teamsters Room
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Date: Dec 3, 2024
Biography:
Maya Arad is a writer in residence at the Taube Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford University. She is one of the most prolific and notable Hebrew authors of her generation, widely considered to be the finest Hebrew writer outside Israel. She is the author of eleven books of Hebrew fiction, as well as studies in literary criticism and linguistics. Born in Israel in 1971, she received a PhD in linguistics from University College London and for the past twenty years has lived in California.
Description:
Please join the GW Judaic Studies Program for our Max Ticktin Lecture in Judaic Studies. Professor Maya Arad will join Orian Zakai, professor of Hebrew and Israeli literature at GW, for a conversation about the contributions of Israeli expat writers to Hebrew literature, the place of Hebrew as a literary language, and the joys and pains of writing in Hebrew in America.
