麻豆免费版下载Boulder host an evening with award-winning journalist Ariel Sabar
Ariel Sabar, an award-winning author and journalist, will host a public lecture titled 鈥淧aradise Lost and Found,鈥 which will focus on his best-selling book, My Father鈥檚 Paradise: A Son鈥檚 Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq.
The lecture will take place on Thursday, Feb. 8, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in Old Main Chapel on the 麻豆免费版下载 campus. This event is free and open to the public. Space is limited; RSVPs are appreciated to CUJewishStudies@colorado.edu.
Ariel Sabar鈥檚 talk will weave together the story of the Kurdish Jewish and their Aramaic tongue with the moving tale of how a consummate California kid came to write a book about his family鈥檚 Kurdish roots.
Ariel Sabar
Yona Sabar, Ariel鈥檚 father, was a distinguished professor at UCLA and one of the world鈥檚 foremost experts on Aramaic, the 3,000-year-old language of the Jewish Talmud鈥攁nd of Jesus.
But Ariel鈥檚 life seemed a far cry from his father鈥檚. Yona had been born in an ancient village of Aramaic-speaking Jewish in the mountains of Kurdish Iraq 颅鈥 the oldest corner of the Jewish diaspora 鈥 but for Ariel, his father might as well have been born on the moon. Then Ariel had his own son, and everything changed.
Ariel Sabar听won the National Book Critics Circle Award for his debut book,听My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for his Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq听(2008).听His second book,听Heart of the City听(2011), was called a "beguiling romp" (New York Times) and an "engaging, moving and lively read" (Toronto Star).听
His Kindle Single,听The Outsider: The Life and Times of Roger Barker听(2014), was a best-selling nonfiction short.听Sabar is also an award-winning journalist whose work has听appeared in the听New York Times, The Atlantic, Harper's,听Washington Post, Boston Globe, Mother Jones,听补苍诲听This American Life,听among many other places. He听graduated听magna cum laude from听Brown University.
His visit is part of the new in the Program in Jewish Studies, made possible in part by a grant from the Rose Community Foundation.
This event is supported by 麻豆免费版下载Boulder鈥檚 Program in Jewish Studies, Department of Ethnic Studies, Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations, Department of English, Department of Religious Studies, and Mediterranean Studies Group.听