Let’s Talk About It: Jewish Literature
“Demons, Golems and Dybbuks: Monsters of the Jewish Imagination.” is the topic of a series of book discussions to be held at Memorial Library this fall 2006. Selections that will be discussed include:
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Satan in Goray
on August 24, 2006
S. Ansky (Edited by David R. Roskies, Translated by Golda Werman)
The Dybbuk and Other Writings
on September 21, 2006
Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis
on October 19, 2006
Cynthia Ozick
The Puttermesser Papers
on November 16, 2006
Tony Kushner
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes
on December 7, 2006
Discussions will be conducted by Nicola Morris, a lecturer in the SUNY Cortland English Department, who has written and taught on the topic. All discussions will be held on Thursday evenings in the Teaching Materials Center of Memorial Library at 7:00 PM. These discussions are free and open to the public. Please encourage your neighbors to come–and come yourself!
Books and other materials will be provided to participants. Books for the first session in August are currently available at the Memorial Library Circulation Desk. For further information check out the American Library Association website http://www.nextbook.org/ala/librl_demons.html
This program is funded by grants from The American Library Association/Nextbook, United University Professions and the Friends of the Library at SUNY Cortland.
*Let’s Talk About It: Jewish Literature is a project of Nextbook and the American Library Association.
For local information about the program, please contact:
Ellen McCabe
Senior Assistant Librarian
Bibliographer for the Humanities
Cataloger
Memorial Library
State University of New York College at Cortland
P.O. Box 2000
Cortland, New York 13045
607-753-4051
mccabe@cortland.edu