BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:805@shearithisrael.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230504T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230504T200000 DTSTAMP:20230425T200222Z URL:https://www.shearithisrael.org/events/hundred-saturdays/ SUMMARY:BOOK EVENT: "One Hundred Saturdays" with author Michael Frank DESCRIPTION:One Hundred Saturdays:\nStella Levi and the Search for a Lost W orld\nwith author Michael Frank and Shearith Israel member\, Isabelle Levy \nMay 4 | 7:00 pm (following 6:30 pm Evening Services)\nIsabelle Levy and Michael Frank will have a lively conversation about the process of writing \, researching\, and above all learning how to listen to the story of Stel la Levi\, who is one of the last remaining survivors of the Sephardic Jewi sh community of Rhodes. Michael's encounter with Stella spanned more than one hundred Saturdays spread over six years and was as transformative an e xperience for him as it is for the reader of this captivating book. A Q &a mp\; A with the author will follow.\nTo register\, click here >\;>\;\n ___________\n\nMichael Frank has contributed essays\, book reviews\, and s hort stories to The New York Times\, The Los Angeles Times\, The Atlantic\ , Slate\, The Yale Review\, The Threepenny Review\, The TLS\, and Tablet\, among other publications. He is the author of What Is Missing\, a novel\, and The Mighty Franks\, a memoir\, which was awarded the 2018 JQ Wingate Prize and was named one of the best books of the year by The Telegraph and The New Statesman. One Hundred Saturdays received the Jewish Book Council ’s Natan Notable Book Award and was one of the Wall Street Journal’s t op ten books of 2022. A 2020 Guggenheim Fellow\, Frank lives with his fami ly in New York City and Camogli\, Italy.\n\nIsabelle Levy\, PhD\, is Lectu rer and Academic Program Director and Lecturer at the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies\, Columbia University. She is the author of Jewish Lit erary Eros: Between Poetry and Prose in the Medieval Mediterranean (Indian a University Press\, 2022) and has published articles in Medieval Encounte rs\; La Corónica\; A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Pe ninsula\, Volume II\; and Digital Dante. Her research specializes in medie val Jewish literature via explorations of the relationships among the Hebr ew\, Arabic\, and Romance literary traditions of the medieval Mediterranea n.\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.shearithisrael.org/wp-content/upload s/2023/04/One-Hundred-Saturdays-thumbnail.png CATEGORIES:Featured Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR