100 Years of Jewish American Literature: The Launch of the Brian E. Lebowitz Collection of 20th Century Jewish American Literature at the University of Colorado at Boulder
Thursday, November 11, 2010 @ 7 PM
University of Colorado at Boulder
Visual Arts Complex Auditorium- 1B20
Boulder, CO 80301
Presented by the Program in Jewish Studies at CU-Boulder and co-sponsored by the CU Art Museum, Menorah at the Boulder JCC, the Department of English at CU-Boulder, the University Libraries.
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Free and open to the public RSVP's appreciated as space is limited
The Brian E. Lebowitz Collection of First Edition 20th Century Jewish American Literature is one of the largest library holdings in the world, documenting and preserving this unique moment in American and Jewish literary and cultural history. Join CU's Program in Jewish Studies, the Department of English, the University Libraries, the CU Art Museum and Menorah: Arts, Culture and Education at the Boulder JCC for a celebration of the collection Jewish American literature featuring readings by the following authors whose works are included in the collection:
Steve Katz, critically acclaimed author and Professor Emeritus of English in the Creative Writing Program at CU- Boulder,
Sidney Goldfarb, renowned poet, playwright and Professor of English and co-founder of the Creative Writing Program at CU-Boulder,
Robert Alter, one of the world's foremost translators of the Hebrew Bible and scholar of modern Jewish literature and Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley.
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