Fall 2016

Tuesday, September 20, 2016, 8:00 PM

AN EVENING WITH ETGAR KERET, best-selling Israeli writer and award-winning filmmaker, Mr. Keret will discuss his artistic and professional career through his latest book The Seven Good Years and the movie Etgar Keret What Kind of Animal Are You? After the screening of the movie, he will read from his latest stories as well as engage with the audience in a Q/A session.
 
Internationally acclaimed for his short stories, Keret fuses the banal with the fantastic in his writing and offers a window on a surreal world that is both dark and comic. His books are best-sellers in Israel and have been published in more than 30 languages. Keret has received the Book Publishers Association`s Platinum Prize several times, the Chevalier medallion of France’s Order of Arts and Letters, the Prime Minister`s Prize, and the Ministry of Culture`s Cinema Prize.

Location: Goldsmith Family Cinema, 301 Washington Terrace, Middletown, CT.  Free Admission.  Open to the Public.

 
Seven Good Years
Thursday, October 27, 2016, 8:00 PM

THE SOUND OF OUR STEPS WITH RONIT MATALON, bestselling writer and novelist
 
 

Ronit Matalon will discuss her latest novel, The Sounds of our Steps. Matalon is a bestselling writer and novelist and has worked as a journalist for Israel TV and for the daily Haaretz. She has also worked as a critic and book reviewer for Haaretz. At present, she is senior lecturer in Hebrew and comparative literature at Haifa University. She teaches creative writing there as well as at the Sam Spiegel Film School in Jerusalem and is a member of the Forum for Mediterranean Culture at the Van Leer Institute.

 

Location: PAC 004 (Public Affairs Center), Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.  Free Admission.  Open to the Public.

 
Sound of our Steps

 

Monday, November 7, 2016, 8:00 PM

THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF JERUSALEM: INTER-GENERATIONAL TENSION, FORBIDDEN LOVE, AND QUESTIONS OF IDENTITY IN 20TH-CENTURY ISRAEL WITH SARIT YISHAI-LEVI, acclaimed Israeli journalist and author 

 
 
Sarit Yishai-Levi will discuss her debut novel, The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem. Yishai-Levi is an acclaimed Israeli  journalist and author. The Beauty Queen of Jerusalme was a number one bestseller that won the Publishers Association’s Gold and Platinum Prizes and the Steimatzky Prize for bestselling book of the year when it was published in Israel.

 


Location: Russell House, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.  Free Admission.  Open to the Public.
The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem_cover