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Press, is based on extensive use of unpublished sources, including many
thousands of letters, and six unpublished novels.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 **
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