Sunday, December 8, 2024, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
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Three Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome crises. Ilana is a veteran Hebrew instructor at a Midwestern college who has built her life around her career. Miriam, whose son left Israel to make his fortune in Silicon Valley, pay an unwanted visit to meet her new grandson and discovers cracks in the family’s perfect façade. Efrat, another Israeli in California, is determined to help her daughter navigate the challenges of middle school.
In these three stirring novellas which make up The Hebrew Teacher, celebrated Israeli author, Maya Arad probes the demise of idealism and the generation gap her heroines must confront.
Maya Arad is the author of eleven books of Hebrew fiction as well as studies in literary criticism and linguistics. Born in Israel in 1971, she received a PhD in linguistics from University College, London and for the past twenty years has lived in California where she is currently writer in residence at Stanford University’s Taube Center for Jewish Studies.
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This ongoing series has been made possible by a generous grant from the B’nai Sholom/Beth El Foundation.