Let’s Talk About It! Jewish Literature: Identity and Imagination
A Mind of Her Own – Fathers and Daughters in a Changing World
The George A. Smathers Libraries will sponsor a reading and discussion series entitled “Let’s Talk About It: Jewish Literature — Identity and Imagination” beginining August 2006. The series is designed to offer participants an opportunity to learn about Jewish literature and culture by reading the best in contemporary and classic Jewish literature and discussing these works in a scholar- lead discussion. The theme of the discussions will be “A Mind of Her Own: Fathers and Daughters in a Changing World.” Discussions will take place on Sunday afternoons from 2:00-4:00pm (except for Oct. 1which is from 10:00am-noon) in the Hillel library. The titles chosen to compliment this theme are:
Tevye the Dairyman, by Sholem Aleichem, Aug 27; Bread Givers, by Anzia Yezierska, Sept 10; 1185 Park Avenue: A Memoir, by Anne Roiphe, Oct. 1; American Pastoral, by Philip Roth, Oct 22; and Bee Season, by Myla Goldberg, Nov 5.
Associate professor Andrew Gordon of UF’s English department will lead the five-part series. Dr. Gordon has been a member of the UF faculty since 1975, teaching American fiction since 1945, Jewish-American fiction, and science fiction literature and film.
The Smathers Libraries join a distinguished list of more than 150 libraries nationwide that have produced this program over the last two years. Smathers is the only Florida library to receive this award in the current round of funding.
Let’s Talk About It: Jewish Literature, a reading and discussion series, has been made possible through a grant from Nextbook and the American Library Association.
The libriares would like to thank the Hillel at the University of Florida and the University of Florida Center for Jewish Studies for co-sponsoring this program.
If you would like additional information about the program please contact Chelsea Dinsmore at 273-0369 or at chedins@uflib.ufl.edu.
Let’s Talk About It! Jewish Literature, a reading and discussion series, has been made possible through a grant from Nextbook and the American Library Association. See www.nextbook.org and www.ala.org/publicprograms for more information.
