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September 25 - Author Event: Tehila Hakimi Reads From "Hunting in America"
September 25 - "Holding Liat" Documentary Film Screening With the Director
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Thursday, September 25
1:20-2:10 PM
Mandel Center for the Humanities, Room 303
Join us for a reading with Tehila Hakimi from her novel "Hunting in America" (2025, Penguin Random House, translated by Joanna Chen). Tehila Hakimi is a Jewish Book Council Award winner, a 2018 Fulbright International Writing Program Fellowship participant, and the winner of the 2018 Levi Eshkol Memorial Prime Minister’s Prize for Hebrew Writers. Hakimi’s short prose and poems have been published in translation in Asymptote, World Literature Today, and The Poetry Review.
We will raffle off 20 copies of the book to those who attend.
Hakimi's works include "Tomorrow We Will Work" (Poetry, 2014, Tangier Publishing), "In the Water" (Graphic Novella, 2016), "Company" (Prose, 2018, Resling Publishing), "Motherland" (Novella, 2023, Pardes Publishing and Van Leer Institute), "Hunting in America" (Novel, 2023, Ahuzat Bayit Publishing), and "Mother X" (Poetry, 2024, Locus Publishing).
Cosponsored by the Mandel Center for the Humanities and the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies.
Thursday, September 25
6:30pm
Wasserman Cinematheque
Join us for the screening of the award winning documentary "Holding Liat." The screening will be followed by a conversation between director Brandon Kramer and Professor and Schusterman Center Senior Associate Director Shayna Weiss, and a Q&A from the audience moderated by Professor Ambrus Hernandi.
Liat Atzili was kidnapped from her kibbutz on October 7. What begins as a chronicle of her parents, sister, and children's efforts to secure her return, becomes an unflinching portrait of conflicting impulses towards anger, indifference, and compassion straining the bonds of one grieving family. Through the intimate lens of a family's experience, Holding Liat poses complex questions of identity across generations, as the family is thrust into the epicenter of a global conflict rapidly unfolding in real-time.
This event is co-sponsored by the Film, TV, and Interactive Media Program, the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, Anthropology Department and Sociology Department.
The event is open, no need to register in advance.