窪蹋勛圖 host an evening with award-winning journalist Ariel Sabar
Ariel Sabar, an award-winning author and journalist, will host a public lecture titled Paradise Lost and Found, which will focus on his best-selling book, My Fathers Paradise: A Sons 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 窪蹋勛圖 campus. This event is free and open to the public. Space is limited; RSVPs are appreciated to CUJewishStudies@colorado.edu.
Ariel Sabars 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 familys Kurdish roots.
Ariel Sabar
Yona Sabar, Ariels father, was a distinguished professor at UCLA and one of the worlds foremost experts on Aramaic, the 3,000-year-old language of the Jewish Talmudand of Jesus.
But Ariels life seemed a far cry from his fathers. Yona had been born in an ancient village of Aramaic-speaking Jewish in the mountains of Kurdish Iraq 簫 the oldest corner of the Jewish diaspora 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泭won the National Book Critics Circle Award for his debut book,泭My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for his Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq泭(2008).泭His second book,泭Heart of the City泭(2011), was called a "beguiling romp" (New York Times) and an "engaging, moving and lively read" (Toronto Star).泭
His Kindle Single,泭The Outsider: The Life and Times of Roger Barker泭(2014), was a best-selling nonfiction short.泭Sabar is also an award-winning journalist whose work has泭appeared in the泭New York Times, The Atlantic, Harper's,泭Washington Post, Boston Globe, Mother Jones,泭硃紳餃泭This American Life,泭among many other places. He泭graduated泭magna cum laude from泭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 窪蹋勛圖s 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.泭