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Jews in Modern Europe Study Group

The Némirovsky Question: Susan Rubin Suleiman in conversation about her new book with Joshua Rubenstein and Annabel Kim


May 2, 2017
5:15pm - 6:45pm
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
May 2, 2017
5:15pm - 6:45pm
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall

Susan Suleiman’s The Némirovsky Question: The Life, Death, and Legacy of a Jewish Writer in 20th-Century France, explores the fraught issue of Jewish identity in the life and work of Franco-Russian novelist Irène Némirovsky, author of the posthumous bestseller Suite Française. Joshua Rubenstein and Annabel Kim will engage Suleiman in a three-way conversation about Jews in interwar Europe, antisemitism in fiction, and other subjects she treats in her book.

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Susan Rubin Suleiman, the C. Douglas Dillon Research Professor of the Civilization of France and Research Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard, is the author of many books, including Crises of Memory and the Second World War and Budapest Diary: In Search of the Motherbook.Joshua Rubenstein, a long-time associate of the Davis Center and Associate Director for major gifts at Harvard Law School, is the author of Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary's Life and Tangled Loyalties: The Life and Times of Ilya Ehrenburg.Annabel Kim, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard, is author of the forthcoming book Unbecoming Language: Anti-Identitarian French Feminist Fiction

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