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Monday April 26, 2010
7:30PM - - -
Hillel Halkin: Yehuda Halevi
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Like Maimonides, with whom he is often contrasted, Yehuda Halevi spanned multiple worlds. Poet, physician, and philosopher, Halevi is as well known today for poetry that is taught to schoolchildren and has become part of the Jewish liturgy, as he is for The Kuzari, one of the most important works of Jewish philosophy ever published.
Hillel Halkin brilliantly evokes the fascinating world of 11th and 12th century Andalusian Spain and discusses the tangle of religious and cultural influences–Christian, Muslim, and Jewish–that formed Halevi. He also pieces together the mysterious fragments of Halevi’s last days and his final, fateful voyage to Palestine.
An acclaimed writer and translator, Halkin intersperses his account of Halevi’s life and tragic death with excerpts from his poems and a magnificent analysis of them. He also places Halevi’s philosophic writings within the larger context of Jewish thought, analyzes his rediscovery by Heinrich Heine and other members of the nineteenth-century German-Jewish intelligentsia, and provides a comprehensive overview of the ongoing debate over Halevi’s legacy as a Zionist visionary.
Hillel Halkin's work includes Across the Sabbath River: In Search of a Lost Tribe of Israel, Letters to an American Jewish Friend, A Strange Death, and a translation of Sholem Aleichem’ s Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories. His essays and columns have appeared regularly in Commentary, as well as in The New Republic, The Jerusalem Post, The New York Sun, and other publications. He lives in Israel.
This program is presented by Nextbook Press, Inc. and JDub Records
For more information and ticket sales, contact Margalit C. Rosenthal, call (202) 777-3251, or go to http://thejdc.convio.net/site/Calendar/205276358?view=Detail&id=123361.
ASL Interpretation available upon request.
Hillel Halkin brilliantly evokes the fascinating world of 11th and 12th century Andalusian Spain and discusses the tangle of religious and cultural influences–Christian, Muslim, and Jewish–that formed Halevi. He also pieces together the mysterious fragments of Halevi’s last days and his final, fateful voyage to Palestine.
An acclaimed writer and translator, Halkin intersperses his account of Halevi’s life and tragic death with excerpts from his poems and a magnificent analysis of them. He also places Halevi’s philosophic writings within the larger context of Jewish thought, analyzes his rediscovery by Heinrich Heine and other members of the nineteenth-century German-Jewish intelligentsia, and provides a comprehensive overview of the ongoing debate over Halevi’s legacy as a Zionist visionary.
Hillel Halkin's work includes Across the Sabbath River: In Search of a Lost Tribe of Israel, Letters to an American Jewish Friend, A Strange Death, and a translation of Sholem Aleichem’ s Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories. His essays and columns have appeared regularly in Commentary, as well as in The New Republic, The Jerusalem Post, The New York Sun, and other publications. He lives in Israel.
This program is presented by Nextbook Press, Inc. and JDub Records
For more information and ticket sales, contact Margalit C. Rosenthal, call (202) 777-3251, or go to http://thejdc.convio.net/site/Calendar/205276358?view=Detail&id=123361.
ASL Interpretation available upon request.
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Location/Venue:
Washington DCJCC
Address:
1529 16th St., NW
City:
Washington, DC
Zip/Postal:
20036
Contact Name:
Margalit C. Rosenthal
Phone:
202-777-3251
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