Tzvi Daremblum Memorial Lecture:

Jonathan Safran Foer and Leon Wieseltier in Conversation

Come here this New York Times bestselling author talk about what it means to be a Jewish writer in America today. How does the prize-winning and occasionally controversial author of Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close understand the literary tradition inherited from founding American Jewish writers? What led him to focus his non-fiction work, Eating Animals, on vegetarianism and the meat industry? Where does his new novel, Tree of Codes, literally cut out of another novel, fit in as a physical object in this age of the e-reader? Join us to explore these questions and more in a dialogue between Jonathan Safran Foer and Leon Wieseltier, American Jewish writer and Literary Editor of The New Republic.

This annual lecture is generously underwritten by Ambassador and Mrs. Jaime Daremblum and their daughter, Naomi, in loving memory of Tzvi Daremblum, their son and brother.

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