Between Antiquity and Modernity

Thu 3 Mar, 5:30-7:30 pm. 1 South Franklin St., #230-825, Chicago, 60606. Laura Smith, 312-357-4851. Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago - [email][events]

Meir Shalev: "Between Antiquity and Modernity: Can the Hebrew Language Survive its Revival?"(2) Meir Shalev will deliver the 2011 Horvitz Memorial Lecture. Israel’s most celebrated novelist, Meir Shalev was born in 1948 in Nahalal, Israel’s first moshav. His books include A Pigeon and a Boy and The Loves of Judith (Four Meals), among others. Russian Romance (The Blue Mountain) is one of the top five bestsellers in Israeli publishing history. Shalev’s writing is often compared to Gabriel Garcia Marquez for his ability to “create worlds inhabited by the richness of invention and obsessiveness of dreams. delivers both startling imagery and passionate, original characters whose destinies we follow through love, loss, laughter and death” (The NY Times Book Rev