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Wieseneck Symposium

Hebrew Literature Today:
Israeli and Global Perspectives
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his year’
s Gayle & Larry
Wieseneck Israel Symposium
will host four prominent
writers from Israel. On Jan. 17 in
the Rackham Assembly Hall at the
University of Michigan, the high-
ly acclaimed writers Maya Arad,
Ruby Namdar and Moshe Sakal,
and the prize-winning poet, trans-
lator and editor Dory Manor will
travel to Ann Arbor to participate
in the symposium, titled “Hebrew
Literature Today: Israeli and Global
Perspectives.”
These writers stand at the forefront
of contemporary Hebrew literature
in Israel and the U.S. and will be in
conversation with U-M scholars and
students. Supported by the Gayle &
Larry Wieseneck Israel Symposium
Fund, the Frankel Center has been
hosting an annual symposium on a
topic related to Israel since 2013.
Maya Arad received her Ph.D. in
linguistics from the University of
London and is a lecturer at the Taube
Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford
University. She has written several
novels, including best-sellers Seven
Moral Failings and her first novel,
Another Place, a Foreign City, which
was written in rhyme and won the
Ministry of Education and Culture
award. It was also adapted into a play
at the Cameri Theater in Tel Aviv.
Her most recent book, The Hebrew
Teacher (2018), is composed of three
interrelated novellas about Israelis in
the U.S.
Ruby Namdar is a writer and
educator from Jerusalem who lives
and work in New York City. His first
novel, Haviv, also won a Ministry
of Culture’
s Award for Best First
Publication. His most recent novel,
The Ruined House, was recently
translated into French and English
(Harper Collins). The ambitious
book was heralded as a masterpiece
of modern religious literature and
received the Sapir Prize, Israel’
s most
prestigious literary award.
Moshe Sakal is a writer, editor and
essayist, who was born in Israel to
families from Egypt and Syria. He
has written five highly acclaimed
Hebrew novels that were translated

into several languages. His novel The
Diamond Setter was translated into
English in 2018 by Man Booker Prize
Winner Jessica Cohen. Sakal’
s novel
Yolanda, which is being translated to
English as well, was short-listed for
the Sapir Prize. He has contributed
to many publications, including The
Forward, Salon and Haaretz.
Dory Manor is among Israel’
s
most important poets and transla-
tors. He won numerous awards for
his poetry, most recently received
the Yehuda Amichai prize, as well
as Tchernichovsky Prize for best
translations of world masterpieces.
He founded Oh! in 2005 and is the
literary magazine’
s editor. In 2017,
he received his Ph.D. in translation
studies and comparative literature
from the University of Paris. Manor
also co-hosted a popular radio show
that includes music and literature.
In a wide-ranging conversation,
these writers will discuss the mean-
ing of writing Hebrew today in
Israel and around the world, and the
contacts between Hebrew and other
languages. They will consider the
challenges of translation, editing and
disseminating literature in a global
context, as well as the political impli-
cations of Hebrew literature today.
For times and other informa-
tion, visit https://lsa.umich.edu/
judaic/news-events/all-events.detail.
html/57436-14193506.html. ■

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