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FAU Presents "How to Mend Love? Wrestling with the Legacy of the Holocaust in Recent Israeli Writing"

BOCA RATON, FL (January 20, 2006) - Florida Atlantic University's Alan L. Berger, Raddock Family Eminent Scholar Chair in Holocaust Studies and director of the Center for the Study of Values and Violence after Auschwitz, presents a free public lecture titled "How to Mend Love? Wrestling with the Legacy of the Holocaust in Recent Israeli Writing." The lecture will be held on Sunday, February 5 at 1 p.m. in the Performing Arts Building, Room 101 on FAU's Boca Raton campus, 777 Glades Road, and is free and open to the public.

The lecture will be presented by Rachel Brenner, who holds degrees from the Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University and York University in Toronto. She is professor of Modern Hebrew Literature in the Department of Hebrew and Semitic studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Brenner has published numerous articles on literary responses to the Holocaust in Canadian, American and Hebrew literature and on Jewish-Arab encounters in Israeli literature. Her books include "Writing as Resistance: Four Women Confronting the Holocaust: Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, and Etty Hillesum" and "Inextricably Bonded: Israeli Jewish and Arab Writers Re-Visioning Culture."

For more information, call 561-297-2979.

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