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German Studies, the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, the Program in Judaic Studies, and the Department of Religion present:
Reading and discussion in English.
Tuesday, November 4 at 4:00 PM in Guilford Parlor
Reception at 3:30.
"I was born in California thirty years ago. My mother is from Vienna, my father from Berlin, both sole survivors of the Genocide. I grew up in
America, in Britain, France, Germany, and Austria, where our maid took me along to Sunday Mass from time to time. My Judaism wasn't exactly kept hidden
from me, yet to spare me the horrors of the Holocaust it was a secret which when unveiled would provide no benefit. During my first trip to Jerusalem
I spent only a couple of hours in a Torah school; curiosity had led me there. The rabbi at the yeshiva reached out his hand toward me and said, 'Promise
me you'll come back here?' And I did return." (From: Preface to Shabbat)
Shabbat: A Rite of Passage in Jerusalem is the book about Jungk's year of exploring the city and studying at the Torah school, exposing himself
to the most religious of lives in the most religious of cities.
Now, twenty years later, the author will read from Shabbat and discuss the very different Jerusalem of today and his life as a Jewish author,
film scriptwriter, translator, and essayist in Berlin, Vienna, and--for the past fifteen years--in Paris.
Prose works include:
Stechpalmenwald (1978) - Rundgang (1981) - Franz Werfel Eine Lebensgeschichte (1987) - Tigor (1991) - Die Unruhe der
Stella Federspiel (1996) - Die Erbschaft (1999) - Der König von Amerika (2001).
In English translation:
Shabbat (1985) - Franz Werfel: a Life in Prague, Vienna, and Hollywood (1990) - The Snowflake Constant (2002), his most recent book,
has just been short-listed by the Arts Council England for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2003.
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