[Jewish] Gail Hareven Events

[Rachel Rubinstein]

Sunday, October 14, 2 pm at the Yiddish Book Center:
Gail Hareven, one of Israel's prominent writers, will present a talk entitled,
"Is there room for a room of one's own?  On politics and writing in Israel."

Hareven is a highly regarded author of five novels, three story collections,
plays, nonfiction, and children's books.  She is the winner of the Sapir Prize
for literature, among Israel's most prestigious literary prizes, awarded for
her novel, The Confessions of Noa Weber (English translation). In addition,
Hareven is a journalist and teacher of creative writing. Hareven  is currently
a Shusterman Visting Fellow and artist-in-residence for six weeks at Mount
Holyoke College, Hampshire College, and the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst.

Reception to follow.

AND

There is still space!
Midrash: A Creative Writing Workshop
A series of four seminars with visiting writer and translator Gail Hareven

Wednesday evenings, 6:30-8:30
October 17, 24, 31, and November 7
FPH 106

Midrash stories are born of a combination of great respect for every word
in the Bible and troubled thoughts provoked by biblical texts. Troubled
thoughts and careful word choice are two things that are needed for
literary writing and in this workshop we'll practice both.
We'll open our workshop with a close reading of one Bible story. Students will
be asked to bring Bibles to the first meeting. Following this reading, each
student will have to focus on something that bothers her or him in the
classical text and start developing these bothered thoughts
into a story. Students' works will be read and discussed in class. At the end of
our mini-course we'll hopefully have a collection of well written Midrash
stories that we can celebrate with a special reading session.
Open to the campus community. Division I students get CEL-1 credit! To register
as a CEL-1 go to campusengagedlearning.hampshire.edu. Otherwise, contact Rachel
Rubinstein at rrHACU at hampshire.edu to reserve a space.


Rachel Rubinstein
Associate Professor of American Literature and Jewish Studies
Dean of Academic Support and Advising
Hampshire College
(413) 559-5821