Events
Discussions
Join us for online and in-person events exploring Always Carry Salt and its themes.
Language and Identity in Contemporary Israeli Poetry (IN PERSON)
Presented by Merav Rozenblum
Thursday, September 24, 6 PM PDT
As Hebrew became the dominant, and later the official, language of the Jews in the land of Israel and later the State of Israel, many other languages spoken by Jewish immigrants were marginalized. A new generation of Israeli poets explores the languages, and thereby the identities, that were lost, and in a way, tries to reclaim them. What is “the other Hebrew?” What is the relationship between two languages that a bilingual poet exists in? Merav Rozenblum will lead a reading and analysis of work by such Israeli writers as Erez Biton, Sami Shalom Chetrit, Eli Eliahu, Adi Keissar, and Almog Behar, among others.
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You are invited to join an upcoming discussion of this year’s One Bay One Book selection, Samantha Ellis’s Always Carry Salt: A Memoir of Preserving Language and Culture.
September 14
Hadassah South Bay