Award-winning author and CUNY Distinguished Professor of English at CCNY Mikhal Dekel.
The “Writers on Iran” series continues at The City College of New York on March 31 with the launch of the expanded paperback edition of Mikhal Dekel’s award-winning “Tehran Children.” A CUNY Distinguished Professor of English, Dekel will discuss her historical memoir with fellow author and deputy chair of CCNY’s English department, Salar Abdoh.
The event, 6 – 7:30 p.m. in CCNY’s Shepard Hall, room 350, is free and open to the public. Click here to register.
Nearly 100 pages longer than the hardcover version of “Tehran Children” first published in 2019, the paperback edition was recently published with the title “In the East: How My Father and a Quarter Million Polish Jews Survived the Holocaust."
The York Times Book Review has hailed the tome as “not simply another detail of the Holocaust but a matter of enduring existential, psychological and moral reflection.”
It’s been a finalist in numerous awards among them the 2020 Sami Rohr Prize for Contributions to Jewish Literature, the Chautauqua Institution Prize for Significant Contribution to the Literary Arts and the 2019 National Jewish Book Awards for Writing Based on Archival Material and Literature.
Dekel is an internationally recognized scholar of comparative literature (with a focus on 20th century English and Hebrew), Jewish studies and cultural history. In addition to her CUNY Distinguished Professorship, she’s the Stuart Z. Katz Professor in the Humanities & the Arts at CCNY and chair of the English Department. She’s also affiliated with the Graduate Center, CUNY.
The “Writers on Iran” spotlight in CCNY’s Division of Humanities and the Arts engages authors, writers and the public in the most pressing conversations of our time, through the lens of literature and the arts.
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