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Reading and Conversation: David Grossman

Reading and Conversation: David Grossman

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  • ABOUT David Grossman

    David Grossman was born in Jerusalem. He is the author of numerous works of fiction, nonfiction, and children’s literature. His work has appeared in The New Yorker and has been translated into thirty languages around the world.

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  • ABOUT Rachel S. Harris

    Rachel S. Harris is assistant professor of comparative literature and Jewish studies at the University of Illinois. Previously she was assistant professor of Hebrew literature and language at the University at Albany (SUNY). Her research interests include the role of suicide in Israeli literature, on which she wrote her doctorate at the University of Oxford. Among her most recent scholarly endeavors is a new project on contemporary literary journals in Tel Aviv.

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Recognized for his powerful prose and outspoken politics, David Grossman, the internationally renowned Israeli writer, visited Chicago in November 2011 to discuss his recent book, his most ambitious work to date. Fraught with tension yet suffused with hope, To the End of the Land is a challenging novel that examines, through the experiences of one Israeli family, the immense physical and emotional costs of the ongoing violence in the Middle East. Grossman read from his recent work and discussed his literary career with Rachel S. Harris, professor of modern Hebrew literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

read the CHF Blog pot about this program by guest blogger Rachel S. Harris.

This program is generously underwritten by The Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago and the Consulate General of Israel to the Midwest.

Photo Credit: Peter-Andreas Hassiepen

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