欧美口爆视频 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 University of 欧美口爆视频 Boulder campus. This event is free and open to the public. Space is limited; RSVPs are appreciated to 欧美口爆视频JewishStudies@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 won the National Book Critics Circle Award for his debut book, My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for his Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq (2008). His second book, Heart of the City (2011), was called a "beguiling romp" (New York Times) and an "engaging, moving and lively read" (Toronto Star).
His Kindle Single, The Outsider: The Life and Times of Roger Barker (2014), was a best-selling nonfiction short. Sabar is also an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Harper's, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Mother Jones, and This American Life, among many other places. He graduated magna cum laude from 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 欧美口爆视频 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.