Renown Israeli Scholar Dr. Rachel Tzvia Back will speak on

 From Holocaust Poet to Poet of Protest:
the Poetry and Life of Tuvia Ruebner

TOMORROW evening, Monday, October 6th, at the Roth Center

Dinner is at 6:00 (rsvp to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> or call 646-0410)  and

the lecture begins at 6:30 at the Roth Center.

All are welcome at both the dinner and the lecture.  Just RSVP for the dinner.

We are honored and thrilled to bring her to Dartmouth and the Roth Center for Jewish Life.  Sponsored by Dartmouth Hillel, Jewish Studies Program, the Tucker Foundation, and the Upper Valley Jewish Community.

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Dr. Tzvia Back's  lecture is based  on her new book, " In the Illuminated Dark: Selected Poems of Tuvia Ruebner. The volume is translated, annotated and introduced by Rachel Tzvia Back and books will be available for purchase after the lecture.

Rachel Tzvia Back, poet, translator, and professor of literature, lives in the Galilee, where her great great great grandfather settled in the 1830s. She has lectured widely in the US and is the recipient of various awards, including a PEN Translation grant, a Hadassah-Brandeis Research grant, and a Dora Maar Brown Foundation Fellowship. Previous volumes of translation include Lea Goldberg: Selected Poetry and Drama and With an Iron Pen: Twenty Years of Hebrew Protest Poetry. Her own poetry collection A Messenger Comes (Elegies) was voted by Forward Magazine one of the five most notable poetry collections of 2012.