Don’t Forget: Habitus at N.Y.C. Museum of Jewish Heritage Tonight!!
by David Gutherz · 07/14/10
Wondering what to do with your Wednesday? Looking for a change of pace? A little intellectual stimulation, for a change? Well, then, you simply should not miss joining Habitus editor Joshua Ellison for a conversation with celebrated author André Aciman tonight–Wednesday, July 14th–at the Museum of Jewish Heritage as they discuss the provocative question: Is New York the Diaspora?
With its enormous Jewish population, its creativity and culture, and its unparalleled array of options for Jewish living, should we really think of New York City as part of the Jewish Diaspora; or is it just another kind of homeland?
André Aciman has chronicled a life’s journey across continents and has also emerged as one of contemporary New York’s most astute literary observers. He writes: “New York is my home precisely because it is a place from which I can begin to be elsewhere…a shadow city.” We will talk to André about being a stranger at home in New York, about the place of the city in his recent work, and what it means to be a Jew here.
Aciman is the author of Out of Egypt and, more recently, Call Me By Your Name and Eight White Nights. He is a Distinguished Professor in Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center of New York.
