The Jewish Novel Today: Writing our Past, Writing our Present
Monday, October 27 • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
This event is produced by the New York Jewish Week and 70 Faces Media. Congregation Rodeph Sholom is proud to serve as the host venue.
The most celebrated Jewish novelist of the twenty-first century Jonathan Safran Foer joins debut Jewish novelist Sam Sussman, who everyone is talking about, for a rare conversation about what it means to use fiction to tell the story of our lives, our families, and our Jewish past. This unique conversation about the transformative power of Jewish literature is not to be missed.
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Sam Sussman’s Boy From the North Country is a debut novel like no other. An extraordinary story of love, origins, and self-discovery, the book is based on Sussman’s life story as told in his Harper’s Magazine essay, “The Silent Type: On (Possibly) Being Bob Dylan’s Son”. This majestic novel is a love letter from a son to his mother, an astonishingly rare view into the creative life of Bob Dylan, a tribute to the humanistic power of the Jewish literary tradition. Oprah listed Boy From the North Country as her most anticipated debut novel of Fall 2025.
Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of three award-winning and internationally best-selling novels: Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (both Houghton Mifflin) and Here I Am (FSG) as well as three works of nonfiction: Eating Animals, The New American Haggadah and We Are the Weather. He won The Guardian Book Prize for his debut novel, and his books are published in over 30 languages. His next novel will be published by FSG.
All ticketing is managed directly by the New York Jewish Week. For questions about tickets, please contact us at events@jewishweek.org. By purchasing a ticket you will also begin receiving weekly event emails.
This event is produced by the New York Jewish Week and 70 Faces Media. Congregation Rodeph Sholom is proud to serve as the host venue.
The most celebrated Jewish novelist of the twenty-first century Jonathan Safran Foer joins debut Jewish novelist Sam Sussman, who everyone is talking about, for a rare conversation about what it means to use fiction to tell the story of our lives, our families, and our Jewish past. This unique conversation about the transformative power of Jewish literature is not to be missed.
For an exclusive CRS discount, refer to your CRS News email or send an email to crs@crsnyc.org.
Sam Sussman’s Boy From the North Country is a debut novel like no other. An extraordinary story of love, origins, and self-discovery, the book is based on Sussman’s life story as told in his Harper’s Magazine essay, “The Silent Type: On (Possibly) Being Bob Dylan’s Son”. This majestic novel is a love letter from a son to his mother, an astonishingly rare view into the creative life of Bob Dylan, a tribute to the humanistic power of the Jewish literary tradition. Oprah listed Boy From the North Country as her most anticipated debut novel of Fall 2025.
Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of three award-winning and internationally best-selling novels: Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (both Houghton Mifflin) and Here I Am (FSG) as well as three works of nonfiction: Eating Animals, The New American Haggadah and We Are the Weather. He won The Guardian Book Prize for his debut novel, and his books are published in over 30 languages. His next novel will be published by FSG.
All ticketing is managed directly by the New York Jewish Week. For questions about tickets, please contact us at events@jewishweek.org. By purchasing a ticket you will also begin receiving weekly event emails.
