BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Scottsdale Center For The Performing Arts - ECPv5.16.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Scottsdale Center For The Performing Arts X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://scottsdaleperformingarts.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Scottsdale Center For The Performing Arts BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Phoenix BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20230101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20230302T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20230302T210000 DTSTAMP:20230602T010703 CREATED:20221104T000114Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230207T185156Z UID:15430-1677783600-1677790800@scottsdaleperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Author Talk: Dara Horn DESCRIPTION:A hybrid event (in-person and virtual) by Dara Horn \nPresented by Valley Beit Midrash in partnership with Congregation Beth Israel and Scottsdale Arts \nAbout the Event\nIs there any connection between recent antisemitic attacks and recent controversies about public Holocaust education? Actually\, yes\, and it’s built into a strange historic bargain struck between Jews and non-Jewish societies\, including here in the United States. Here are the parameters of that bargain and the reasons why we all should opt out. \nAbout the Speaker \nDara Horn is the award-winning author of six books\, including the novels In the Image (Norton 2002)\, The World to Come (Norton 2006)\, All Other Nights (Norton 2009)\, A Guide for the Perplexed (Norton 2013)\, and Eternal Life (Norton 2018)\, and the essay collection People Love Dead Jews (Norton 2021). One of Granta magazine’s Best Young American Novelists\, she is the recipient of two National Jewish Book Awards\, the Edward Lewis Wallant Award\, the Harold U. Ribalow Award\, and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize\, and she was a finalist for the JW Wingate Prize\, the Simpson Family Literary Prize\, and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Her books have been selected as New York Times Notable Books\, Booklist’s Best 25 Books of the Decade\, and San Francisco Chronicle’s Best Books of the Year\, and have been translated into 11 languages. Her nonfiction work has appeared in The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, The Washington Post\, The Atlantic\, Smithsonian\, and The Jewish Review of Books\, among many other publications\, and she is a regular columnist for Tablet. Horn received her doctorate in Yiddish and Hebrew literature from Harvard University. She has taught courses in these subjects at Sarah Lawrence College and Yeshiva University and has held the Gerald Weinstock Visiting Professorship in Jewish Studies at Harvard. She has lectured for audiences in hundreds of venues throughout North America\, Israel and Australia. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and four children. \nIn-person event to be held at: \nCongregation Beth Israel\n10460 North 56th Street\nScottsdale\, AZ 85253 \n  URL:https://scottsdaleperformingarts.org/event/author-talk-dara-horn/ LOCATION:Congregation Beth Israel\, 10460 North 56th Street\, Scottsdale\, AZ\, 85253\, United States CATEGORIES:Offsite Partner Event,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://scottsdaleperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Dara-Horn-800x600-1.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR