Gale Family Foundation Fall 2023 Lecture: “Can the Poetic Imagination Save
Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi discusses how a literary reading of the Hebrew Bible can save Jerusalem from war & Abraham’s sons from mutual slaughter
Starts on Sunday, November 5 · 5pm CST
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Located in the Texas Union Building (UNB) Theater, Room 2.228, “Can the Poetic Imagination Save Jerusalem from Itself?” is the most recent in the Gale Lecture Series, hosted by the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies. The Gale Chair Distinguished Lecture Series has been bringing renowned scholars of Jewish studies to speak at UT Austin since 1979.
Based on her recently-published volume, Figuring Jerusalem: Politics and Poetics in the Sacred Center, Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi will talk about how a more “literal,” and literary, reading of the Hebrew Bible can save Jerusalem from war and Abraham’s sons from mutual slaughter.
Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi is Professor Emerita of General and Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has also taught and lectured in the United States, Canada and Europe. She has written on subjects ranging from representations of the Holocaust in postwar Israeli, European and American culture to the configurations of exile and diasporic compensations in classical, premodern and contemporary Jewish literature.
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