A Love Song to My Jewish Yemeni Community: with Ayelet Tsabari
Hosted By: The New York Jewish Week, UJA-Federation of New York
Join the New York Jewish Week in partnership with UJA-Federation New York for the next event in our Folio literary series: author Aylelet Tsabari joins us to discuss Mizrahi Jewish identity, the allure and trauma of family secrets, and how authors like Tsabari are trying to make themselves heard in a market that has become hostile to Israeli voices. She will be joined in conversation with Andrew Silow-Carroll, Editor at Large of the New York Jewish Week.
Imagine Israel, 1950. Thousands of Yemeni Jews have immigrated to the newly founded Israel in search of a better life. A young Yemeni woman learns of her mother’s secret romance in a dramatic journey through lost family stories, revealing the unbreakable bond between a mother and a daughter in a stunning novel by an award-winning literary voice.
Songs for the Broken Hearted, winner of a National Jewish Book Award for Fiction, is the first novel by Ayelet Tsabari, whose story collection “The Best Place on Earth” won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, and whose memoir in essays “The Art of Leaving” was an Apple Books and Kirkus Review Best Book of 2019.
