The International Conference on the Life and Work of Israeli Author Aharon Appelfeld

 
 

One of the world’s most important and influential writers is coming to Penn. Aharon Appelfeld will speak about his writing, and read from his book The Story of A Life, as part of the conference focusing on his life and works.

Join us as Appelfeld has a conversation with Nili Gold, Professor of Hebrew Literature at the University of Pennsylvania at 5 p.m. Thursday, October 27, in Claudia Cohen Hall’s Room G17, 249 S. 36th St.

The International Conference on the Life and Work of Israeli Author Aharon Appelfeld from October 26 to 27 is a collaborative venture between the University of Pennsylvania and Ben Gurion University of the Negev. It brings together between 15 and 18 leading scholars of Jewish and Israeli literature from the Middle East, Europe, and North America. These internationally-renowned scholars in the fields of literature, history, religion and Holocaust studies, will come to Penn to honor Aharon Appelfeld and discuss his work. Appelfeld himself will attend the sessions and comment on them during his public conversation with Nili Gold on the final evening of the conference. All sessions will be open to Penn faculty and students, and the public conversation with Appelfeld will be open to the wider community. His participation is a rare opportunity for the university and other communities to engage with him directly as he speaks about his writing.

 

October 26-27, 2011

A collaboration between the University of Pennsylvania
and Ben Gurion University of the Negev