Sephardic Forum: Major Sephardic Novelists: The Risks They Take – 8 Jan, 2016

If you’ll be in Austin this week for MLA,

Come to  the Sephardic Forum, Friday  8 Jan,  8:30-9:45 a.m. 305, JW Marriott

Major Sephardic Novelists: The Risks They Take

The speakers will focus on five major Sephardic novelists of various backgrounds and the risks they’ve taken in their writing:

• Rosa Nissán (Mexican)
• Patrick Modiano (French)
• Albert Memmi (Tunisian)
• Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff (Egyptian)
• A. B. Yehoshua (Israeli)

Jane Mushabac, NYC College of Technology, CUNY, presiding
Marquesa Macadar, Indiana University
Ruth Malka, McGill University
Reynaldo Romero, University of Houston, Downtown
Judith Roumani, Sephardic Horizons
Joyce Zonana, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY