A conference on the Israeli poet, Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) "Poetics and Politics in Yehuda Amichai's World", will take place at Yale University on October 20-21, 2007. It is free and open to the public. Sessions will take place in the Whitney Humanities Center auditorium, 53 Wall St. New Haven, CT
Benjamin Harshav, the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at Yale, will deliver the keynote address, "Political Discourse and Situational Cognition in Amichai's Poetry," on October 20 at 8:30 p.m. Harshav, one of Amichai's chief translators, was also a close friend of the poet's for 50 years. Speakers on October 21 will include Robert Alter (University of California, Berkeley), Vered Shemtov (Stanford University), Chana Kronfeld, (UC Berkeley) and Boaz Arpaly, Menakhem Perry, Michael Gluzman and Ziva Ben Porat, all from Tel- Aviv University. Roundtable participants will be William Cutter (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion), Barbara Harshav (Yale), Geoffrey Hartman (Yale), Barbara Mann (Jewish Theological Seminary) and Leon Wieseltier, The New Republic. The poet's wife Hana and his daughter Emanuella will also be present. For further information, see <http://www.library.yale.edu/judaica/Amichai/index.html>www.library.yale.edu/judaica/Amichai/index.html or contact Nanette Stahl, Judaica Curator at the Yale University Library and conference coordinator, at 203-432-7207 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dr. Nanette Stahl Judaica Curator Yale University Library Box 208240 New Haven, CT 06520 (203)432-7207 Fax (203)432-7231 Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
