[Daviscenter-list] Zipperstein Lectures on Forthcoming Book

Jewish Societies and Cultures Seminar, Harvard Center for the Humanities and the Center for Jewish Studies present Steven J. Zipperstein with respondent, Ruth Wisse Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History, Stanford University Gerard Weinstock Visiting Professor of Jewish History, Harvard University "I Have Not Told Half of What I Saw": On Reading Isaac Rosenfeld Essayist and novelist Isaac Rosenfeld was considered among the most promising of American Jewish writers during his brief lifetime (he died at the age of 38, in 1956). Coming of age in Chicago with his best friend, Saul Bellow, Rosenfeld was thought at first to be the better writer, and much of Bellow's work (Seize the Day, Henderson the Rain King, Humboldt's Gift) touches on, in one way or another, their intense, complex, lifelong friendship. Professor Zipperstein's biographical study of Rosenfeld, which will be published next year by Yale University Press, is based on extensive use of unpublished sources, including many thousands of letters, and six unpublished novels. In this lecture, Professor Zipperstein will read from his book, and he will discuss it in the larger framework of biographical study, and American Jewish cultural history. Tuesday, November 27, 2007 4:15 pm Harvard Center for the Humanities Room 133, Barker Center Cambridge, MA 02138 ** All are welcome ** ---------------------------------------------- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301 Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu