ART, PERFORMANCES & CONVERSATIONS

All New Center programs speak to Jewish audiences and to the broader community. Attracting large and diverse groups of people, our past programs have explored wide-ranging themes and ideas, including: the Exodus story told from multiple cultural perspectives; the blending of Klezmer and swing music; and the influence of a Jewish up-bringing on the lives and careers of acclaimed writers, artists, musicians, actors, political figures and humorists.

We invite everyone to come and experience the insight, passion, humanity, and humor that lie at the heart of our programs.

Ariel Sabar - My Father’s Paradise

Date:

Tuesday October 20, 2009

Venue:

The Enormous Room
569 Massachusetts Ave.

 Ariel Sabar - My Father’s Paradise

Co-presented by The Harvard Book Store and Harvard Hillel

 

Growing up in 1980s Los Angeles, Ariel Sabar wanted nothing to do with his father's strange immigrant heritage. Until he had a son of his own.  In his award-winning debut book, My Father’s Paradise, Ariel travels with his father to war-torn Iraq in a quest for roots and reconciliation. The New York Times has called Sabar’s book, “graceful and resonant” and The Christian Science Monitor “A wonderful, enlightening journey, a voyage with the power to move readers deeply even as it stretches across differences of culture, family, and memory. Join Ariel Sabar for a night of readings and lively discussion in Cambridge’s charming Enormous Room.

 

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Ariel Sabar

 

Ariel Sabar covered the 2008 U.S. presidential campaigns for the Christian Science Monitor and is an award-winning former staff writer for the Baltimore Sun and the Providence (RI) Journal. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, the Times Sunday Magazine, The Washington Monthly, Mother Jones, Moment, Christianity Today and other publications. He lives with his wife and two children in Washington, D.C.