Dates: June 2, 2013 to June 2, 2013
Location: Beth David Synagogue
OPENING NIGHT of the TORONTO JEWISH LITERARY FESTIVAL Koffler Members $15, General $20 Advance Tickets: www.kofflerarts.org or call 416-638-1881 x4198 Why are words so important to so many Jews? Join historian Fania Oz-Salzberger in conversation with Award-winning author David Layton as they explore Oz-Salzbegers new book ‘Jews and Words’, co-written with her father Amos Oz. Through a blend of storytelling and scholarship, conversation and argument, father and daughter tell the tales behind Judaisms most enduring names, adages, disputes, texts, and quips. These words, they argue, compose the chain connecting Abraham with the Jews of every subsequent generation. Framing the discussion within such topics as continuity, women, timelessness, and individualism, Oz and Oz-Salzberger deftly engage Jewish personalities across the ages, from the unnamed, possibly female author of the Song of Songs through obscure Talmudists to contemporary writers. They suggest that Jewish continuity, even Jewish uniqueness, depends not on central places, monuments, heroic personalities, or rituals but rather on written words and an ongoing debate between the generations. Full of learning, lyricism, and humor, Jews and Words offers an extraordinary tour of the words at the heart of Jewish culture and extends a hand to the reader, any reader, to join the conversation. Presented by the Koffler Centre of the Arts together with the Canada-Israel Cultural Foundation and as part of the Toronto Jewish Literary Festival, June 1-9, various venues around the GTA.
Jews and Words: Fania Oz-Salzberger in conversation with David Layton
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