Wrestling with Redemption: A. B. Yehoshua’s Retrospective Imagination Thursday, April 22 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM Pacific Time RSVP Here Yael Halevi-Wise will talk about her recent book, The Retrospective Imagination of A.B. Yehoshua(2020), which examines the work and ethos of one of Israel’s foremost contemporary authors. An internationally-recognized novelist, the New York Times has called Yehoshua the “Israeli Faulkner.” Co-sponsored by the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies and the UCLA Department of Comparative Literature. About the Program Exploring…

Acclaimed Israeli author Ayelet Tsabari will discuss her memoir, “The Art of Leaving” and its themes of longing and belonging, growing up Mizrahi in Israel, and reclaiming her Yemeni identity. She will be joined by discussant Rabbi Miriyam Glazer, Emerita Professor of Literature at American Jewish University.   RSVP HERE   Presented by the Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies in collaboration with the American Jewish University and the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley. Co-sponsored…

“Traversing Suicide: The Unthought of Blackness in the Suicidological Imagination” Co-sponsored with the Comparative Literature Program in Experimental Critical Theory   Additional details to follow.