ISRAELI FOLKLORIST TO LECTURE
AT UH ABOUT TALES OF ARABIC WOMEN
Israeli Folklorist and Tel-Aviv University Professor Eli Yassif
will speak at the University of Houston Tuesday,
Feb. 10.
He will deliver his speech, “The Voice of ‘the Other’:
Women’s Tales in Arabic Folklore in Israel,” about medieval
literature will take place at 1 p.m. in the A.D. Bruce Religion
Center. The talk is free and open to the public.
Yassif is the author of 10 books on Jewish folklore, Hebrew medieval
narrative, Hebrew literature, and contemporary culture in Israel.
His visit is sponsored by the UH English department and the Martha
Gano Houstoun trust, which named him Martha Gano Houstoun Distinguished
Visiting Scholar.
His visit to UH is part of a month-long series of courses sponsored
by Houston’s Jewish Community Center’s Bunny and Leo
Horvitz Scholar-in-Residence Program.
During his nearly month-long visit to Houston, Yassif will conduct
free and open to the public seminars at the Jewish Community Center,
5601 S. Braeswood. Topics include “Jewish Myths from the Bible
to Modern Israel,” “The Silent Cry of the Voice of Women
in Traditional Jewish Literature,” and “The Midrashic
Narrative: Rabbinic Stories and Their Cultural Meaning.”
WHAT: |
“The Voice of ‘the Other’: Women’s
Tales in Arabic Folklore in Israel” |
WHO: |
Israeli Folklorist Eli Yassif |
WHEN: |
1 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2004 |
WHERE: |
Main Chapel, A.D. Bruce Religion Center at UH, Entrance 13 |
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