[Jewish] Fwd: *Writing the Conflict: Fiction from the Promised Land* - March 1, Smith College (text only)

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Papernick is a GREAT writer; I have taught him in my classes. Please try to
come!
Best,
Rachel Rubinstein

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Please forward and announce  - thank you (text only, for those accounts that
cannot accept the PDF flyer)
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Wednesday, March 1, 2006

The Contemporary Jewish Writers Lecture Series, sponsored by the Program in
Jewish Studies and the Middle East Committee presents:

"Writing the Conflict: Fiction from the Promised Land"
A Reading and Discussion with Jon Papernick, author of The Ascent of Eli Israel

Papernick will discuss his fictional short stories set in Israel during the
collapse of the Oslo Peace accords - a collection of tales of Americans caught
up in the ethnic, religious, social, economic, and political conflicts of
modern day Israel.

"Papernick's penetrating, clear-sighted stories ring true and yet they bring
utterly no consolation. But who ever said that understanding would?" - The New
York Times Book Review

TIME:  7:30 pm
LOCATION:  Neilson Library Browsing Room, Smith College

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Jon Papernick was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. He lived in Israel during
the mid-1990s, working as a journalist in the aftermath of the assassination of
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. He later studied creative writing at Sarah
Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York and received his MFA in fiction.   His
first collection of short stories The Ascent of Eli Israel was published by
Arcade Publishing in 2002. He recently completed his first novel entitled, Who
by Fire, Who by Blood. He is at work on another collection of stories and is
collaborating on an adaptation of his story "An Unwelcome Guest," for the
stage.  Papernick's short fiction has appeared [or will be appearing] in
publications such as Exile, The Sarah Lawrence Review, The Reading Room,
Nerve.com, Night Train Magazine, Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction from the Edge
[Harper], and Scribblers on the Roof [Persea]. His journalism and reviews have
been published in The Jerusalem Post, Time Magazine, JBooks.Com and The
Forward. Papernick has taught writing at the Center for Creative Youth at
Wesleyan University, Pratt Institute and Boston University. He has most
recently been the Fannie Hurst Writer-in-Residence at Brandeis University, and
the Visiting Writer-in Residence at Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel.
He currently teaches fiction writing with Grub Street writers in Boston.

For more information please visit http://www.smith.edu/jud/events.html and
http://www.jonpapernick.com



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Rachel Rubinstein
Jeremiah Kaplan Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish American Literature and
Culture
School of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies
Hampshire College
(413) 559-5518