ANNUAL SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE WEEKEND

Scholar in Residence Weekend
February 27 - March 1
with Dr. Rachel Korazim

Windows to Israeli Society through Literature

We are thrilled and honored to host Dr. Rachel Korazim of the Shalom Hartman Institute and the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) Department of Education. Born in Israel, Rachel served in the IDF as an officer in the central training base for women and was later a member of the IDF delegation to Niger. She is a graduate of Haifa University with a PhD in Jewish education. Rachel has taught widely throughout Israel and North America on modern Israeli literature and its connections to the bible, the Holocaust and modern Zionism.

Rachel will be leading three sessions over the
February 27 – March 1 weekend:

1. Friday night Shabbat service
Friday, February 27
8:00 pm
“Ancient Themes - Modern Words” - About the use of biblical motifs and Jewish imagery in modern Israeli literature

2. Shabbat morning
Saturday, February 28
8:45 am
“Biblical Motives in Modern Israeli Literature” - The binding of Isaac, Joseph, and other biblical figures and events and their use by modern writers as lenses for contemporary dilemmas

3. Sunday morning
Sunday, March 1
9:15 am
“Echos of the Holocaust in Modern Israeli Literature” - How Israeli society deals with the Sho’ah as a significant influence on who we are and how we behave.

All sessions are free and open to the public. Please join us in learning from a master teacher of Israeli poetry and literature.