The Protest Literature of Mizrahi Writers
Date: Aug 08, 2022
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Sponsor: Online Learning
Category: Livestream Public Lectures & Events
The Protest Literature of Mizrahi Writers
Part of our summer learning series: Stories and Storytellers
Monday, August 8, 2022, 1:00-2:30 p.m. ET
Online
With Dr. Beverly Bailis, Adjunct Associate Professor of Jewish Literature
We will discuss protest literature written by different generations of Mizrahi writers and examine how these literary works give voice to these writers’ experience in Israeli society, from the Great Immigration in the 1950s to today. In particular, we will consider how the stories these writers tell engage with the past and traditional Jewish texts, while also looking transnationally to the stories of other cultures and communities, including Palestinians and African Americans, to articulate the complexity of Mizrahi identity in the current historical moment. Writers under discussion will include Ronny Someck, Almog Behar, and Adi Keissar.
Please register for the Stories and Storytelling series in order to receive the Zoom link for this series. Once you register for the Stories and Storytelling series, your registration admits you to all sessions in this series, and you may attend as many sessions as you’d like.
About Dr. Beverly Bailis
Dr. Beverly Bailis is adjunct associate professor of Jewish Literature at JTS. She received her PhD in Hebrew Literature from JTS and her MA in Jewish Civilization from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She specializes in modern Hebrew, Jewish literature, and gender studies. She has taught at Brooklyn College, the Women’s League for Conservative Judaism, the JCC in Manhattan, and other adult education programs in New York City. She has published in Prooftexts and elsewhere, and one of her most recent articles, “Reading the Poetry of Mahmoud Darwish in the Transnational Classroom” appeared in the volume Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict in the College Classroom, published by Wayne State Press in 2019. She is currently a co-editor, along with David Stern, of the forthcoming book, American Hebraist: Essays on Modern Hebrew and Jewish Literature and Literary Culture by Alan Mintz. This anthology is in honor of her former dissertation advisor at JTS, Dr. Alan Mintz (z”l).
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Stories and Storytelling
Join JTS scholars to explore a selection of stories drawn from ancient, rabbinic, medieval, and modern Jewish literature. We will consider the power of shared stories and how they transmit values, norms, culture, and information, bringing Jews together across time and space.
