Event Title:

Organization:

  Literary

  San Francisco

Start Date:

  11/10/2024

End Date:

  11/10/2024

Start Time:

  1:00 PM

End Time:

  2:15 PM

Event Info: 

  How is award-winning novelist Noa Yedlin grappling with portrayals of Israeli society after October 7? How can a society undergoing so much trauma and change be depicted in literature? Yedlin, a best-selling and award-winning Israeli author, offers insights into her heartfelt perspective on being an Israeli writer today, including exploring how the tragedies on and following October 7 affect what fiction should reflect back at society, the everyday lives of Israeli people, the changing role of humor in literature, and art's capacity to help us find meaning and understanding amidst current events.

About Noa Yedlin
Noa Yedlin is an Israeli author, the recipient of the Sapir Prize (the Israeli Man Booker) and the Prime Minister's Literature Award, and is the author of the bestselling works House Arrest, Stockholm, People Like Us, and The Wrong Book. Yedlin is considered one of Israel's top writers. Her novels-widely known for their dark and subtle humor-sketch with biting precision the complex relationships both within the family and outside of it, while capturing and deconstructing the spirit of the times. Yedlin deals with global phenomena that infiltrate the personal realm and shape our everyday lives-the rise and fall of social elites, shifts in the balance of power and the never-ending battle between individualism and conformism.

https://thecjm.org/programs/1452

Location:

  Contemporary Jewish Museum

Room:

Address:

  736 Mission Street

Phone:

  415-655-7800

City:

  San Francisco

State/Province:

  CA