04/08/2010 - 6:30pm to 04/08/2010 - 9:00pm
Location:
Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies at PSU
MJCC
6651 SW Capitol Hwy
Portland, Oregon 97219
Class Description:
HOW WILL APRIL 8 BE DIFFERENT?
"Engrossing ... delicious" - New York Times (Editors' Choice)
"Slam-bang ... superb ... masterful ... gripping ... marvelous" - Washington Post
"Rare and memorable" - Wall Street Journal
"Stellar ... propulsive, suspenseful" - New York Post
"Enthralling ... sublime" - Publisher's Weekly (starred review)
"An astonishing storyteller...extraordinary" - Financial Times
"Vibrant and compelling" - Los Angeles Times
"A triumph" - Booklist (starred review)
ALL OTHER NIGHTS
The new novel by Dara Horn
Passover, 1862. Jacob Rappaport, a Jewish soldier in the Union army during the Civil War, has been ordered to murder his own uncle, a spy in New Orleans who is plotting to assassinate President Lincoln. After this harrowing mission, Jacob is recruited to pursue another enemy agent, the daughter of a Virginia family friend. But this time, his assignment isn’t to murder the spy, but to marry her.
READ IT WITH US!
Based on real personalities and Civil War history, All Other Nights is a gripping and suspenseful story of men and women driven to the extreme limits of loyalty and betrayal. It is a brilliant parable of the rift in America that lingers a century and a half later: the rift between those who value family and tradition first, and those dedicated, at any cost, to social and racial justice for all.
The Harold Schnitzer Family Program at Portland State University invites you, and all of Portland , to read this eagerly awaited novel and hear the author discuss it on April 8, 2010, 6:00 pm at the Mittleman Jewish Community Center.
Proceeds from this special event will benefit the Sara Glasgow Cogan Scholarship at Portland State University , which is awarded each year to PSU students who undertake service-learning internships with local Jewish communal and cultural institutions.
Information on Tickets and Reservations to Follow Soon
Read the first chapter here!
The novel is available for purchase at Annie Bloom’s Books and all quality bookstores.
About the Author
Recently listed on the “Forward 50” as one of America’s most prominent young novelists, Dara Horn first burst onto the scene at the age of 25, when her first novel, In the Image, won a 2003 National Jewish Book Award, the 2002 Edward Lewis Wallant Award, and the 2003 Reform Judaism Fiction Prize. Her second novel, The World to Come, published by W.W. Norton in January 2006, received the 2006 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction, the 2007 Harold U. Ribalow Prize, was selected as an Editors' Choice in The New York Times Book Review and as one of the Best Books of 2006 by The San Francisco Chronicle, and has been translated into eleven languages. She received her Ph.D. in comparative literature from Harvard University in 2006, studying Hebrew and Yiddish, and lives with her husband, daughter and two sons in New Jersey .
More Info:
Official Sponsors So Far:
The Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies
Cedar Sinai Park
The Oregon Area Jewish Committee
The Oregon Jewish Museum
Mittleman Jewish Community Center
National Council of Jewish Women, Portland Section
The Jewish Student Union at PSU
Greater Portland Hillel
For more information, contact Jenn Director Knudsen, development director
jenn.d.knudsen@pdx.edu
503.725.3976
Cost:
$10 donation: ticket to the April 8 talk by Dara Horn (free for students with ID), $50 donation: as above, plus invitation to a special roundtable and intimate group discussion of the novel led by Portland-area Jewish Studies scholars and writers (Sunday, March 21, 3:00 pm at Portland State University ), and listing in the event program, $180 donation: as above, plus invitation to a private reception with the author, listing in the event program, and a complimentary copy of the novel. $250 organizational donation: official sponsorship for your community organization, including its name in the event program, plus four tickets to the April 8 talk