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Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures

Tuesday, April 19, 2022 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Free

Ace reporter, celebrated playwright, taboo-busting novelist, and “the greatest of American screenwriters” (according to New Yorker critic Pauline Kael), Ben Hecht wrote the Hollywood we know today. In this exploration of Hecht’s life and work, we’ll look at his most notable screenplays, as well as his roles as outspoken crusader for the imperiled Jews of World War II-era Europe and fierce propagandist for pre-1948 Palestine’s Jewish terrorist underground. Whatever the outrage he stirred, this renaissance man and self-declared “child of the century” came to embody much that defined America — especially Jewish America — in his time.

Save 30% + free shipping on Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures by Adina Hoffman. Use code CSP30 at checkout at https://www.jewishlives.org/books/benhecht. {Note – US/Canada shipping only. Offers may not be combined. Limited time only}

Adina Hoffman’s books include House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood and My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet’s Life in the Palestinian Century, which was named one of the best twenty books of 2009 by the Barnes & Noble Review and won the UK’s 2010 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize. She is also the author, with Peter Cole, of Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza, winner of the American Library Association’s Brody Medal for the Jewish Book of the Year. In 2016, Farrar, Straus & Giroux published her Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City, which the Los Angeles Times called “brave and often beautiful” and Haaretz described as “a passionate, lyrical defense of a Jerusalem that could still be.” Her critically acclaimed Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures  was a finalist for the 2020 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Prize for Biography and was named one of the best paperbacks of 2020 by the Sunday Times, which dubbed it “a revelation.” Formerly a film critic for the American Prospect and the Jerusalem Post, she is recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and was one of the inaugural winners of the Windham Campbell prize. She lives in Jerusalem and New Haven.

There is no fee, but please RSVP for planning purposes. This event is held virtually on Zoom. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the event. For more information, contact Program Director Ilene Tatro at itatro@cbisd.org.

CSP Partners: Beth Israel (San Diego, CA), Brotherhood Synagogue (Gramercy Park, NYC), Congregation Beth Shalom (Seattle, WA), Congregation B’nai Tzedek (Fountain Valley, CA), Congregation B’nai Israel (Tustin, CA), Jewish Collaborative of Orange County, CA, Shomrei Torah Synagogue (San Fernando Valley, CA), Temple Bat Yahm (Newport Beach, CA), Temple Beth El of South Orange County (Aliso Viejo, CA), Temple Beth Emet (Anaheim, CA), Temple Beth Ohr (La Mirada, CA), Temple Beth Tikvah (Fullerton, CA), Temple Beth Shalom (Needham, MA), Temple Beth Sholom (Santa Ana, CA), Temple Emanuel (Newton, MA), Town & Village Synagogue (NYC, NY), University Synagogue (Irvine, CA), Valley Beth Shalom (Encino, CA) & Walnut Street Synagogue (Chelsea, MA)

Details

Date:
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
Time:
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Cost:
Free
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Website:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAvce-pqjkjHtQh8r07cKF4WyLnWtpGxBO9

Venue

Zoom
San Diego, CA United States

Organizer

Adult Education