Tuesday, February 28, 2017
6 – 8:30 pm
Scheuer Auditorium

Sponsored by The Paul E. Singer Foundation

This spring, join Jewish Book Council, the Jewish Museum, and Tablet Magazine for the third season of Unpacking the Book: Jewish Writers in Conversation, bringing together some of the finest writers of the day for conversations around contemporary Jewish life and identity. Each program in the series is FREE and includes refreshments, a book sale and signing, and the opportunity to visit a featured exhibition at in the Jewish Museum galleries. 

The Jewish return to political power is a modern miracle. But with great power comes great responsibility. Has Israel lived up to its promise? And what comes next for the Jewish state, as it navigates a deeply unstable region and a new American president? Join Daniel Gordis and Nir Baram, two celebrated authors writing from Israel, for a provocative conversation.

Advance RSVP is required; early arrival is suggested as space is limited. Entry is not guaranteed. 
 

Copies of Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn by National Jewish Book Award winner Daniel Gordis will be distributed at the event as a part of The Israel Bookshelf, and Nir Baram's memoir A Land Without Borders: My Journey Around East Jerusalem and the West Bank will be available for sale a month before the official publication date!

Nir Baram was born into a political family in Jerusalem in 1976. His grandfather and father were both Israeli Labor Party ministers. He has worked as a journalist and editor, and began publishing fiction 22 years old. Between 1998 and 2006 Nir published three novels in Hebrew; his November 2016 novel Good People was the first to be released in English, and his forthcoming memoir A Land Without Borders: My Journey Around East Jerusalem and the West Bank publishes internationally April 2017.

Daniel Gordis is senior vice president and the Koret Distinguished Fellow at Shalem College in Jerusalem, Israel’s first liberal arts college, and former vice president of the Mandel Foundation. He writes regular columns for The Jerusalem Post and Bloomberg View. Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn is his eleventh book to publish in English.