Racial and religious prejudice, persecution and the complexities of assimilation, forced 19th and 20th century writers and thinkers such as Kafka, Proust, Zweig, Némirovsky and Roth, to confront their Jewish identities in profound and often controversial ways. Our panel, writer George Prochnik, Professor Susan Suleiman, and curator of European collections at the NLI, Stefan Litt, elucidate.
An event from 2019 Jewish Book Week.
Rebecca Abrams is an author, teacher and journalist. Her books include Touching Distance, The Jewish Journey, When Parents Die and Three Shoes One Sock...
George Prochnik’s essays, poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous journals.
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Susan Rubin Suleiman is a professor emerita of French and comparative literature at Harvard University. Her many books include The Némirovsky Question (2016) and a previous...
Stefan Litt is an archival expert at the National Library of Israel, where he is in charge of European language holdings, featuring authors such...
