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10/01 @ 7pm / Big Blue Marble Bookstore: An evening with Israeli Author Yitzhak Gormezano Goren
Yitzhak Gormezano Goren's novel "Alexandrian Summer" was published in Hebrew in 1978 and has now been translated
Novelist and playwright Yitzhak Gormezano Goren’s novel Alexandrian Summer was originally published in Hebrew in 1978 and has now been translated for the first time. Based in the cultural world of his parents, it tells the story of two Jewish families living their frenzied last days in the doomed cosmopolitan social whirl of Alexandria just before fleeing Egypt for Israel in 1951. Join us for an evening of rich Mizrahi (Arab-Jewish) culture!
Co-sponsored by Germantown Jewish Centre.
Yitzhak Gormezano Goren was born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1941 and immigrated to Israel as a child. A playwright and a novelist, Gormezano Goren has an MFA in theater directing from Brooklyn College. He cofounded the Kedem Stage Theater in Tel Aviv in 1982 and directed it for 30 years. Gormezano Goren is a winner of the Ramat Gan Prize for Literature and received the Israeli Prime Minister’s Prize for Literature in 2001.
