Some 100,000 visitors are expected to participate in the 24th bi-annual International Book Fair at the Jerusalem International Conference Center (Binyanei Ha-uma), where over 800 publishers and writers from Israel and around the world will display their books. From Monday to Thursday, Literary Encounters will take place at different times throughout the day in Teddy D. Hall. The encounters will feature writers reading from their works, discussions between authors, and more. The schedule of Literary Encounters is as follows:
Monday, February 16, 2009:
• 16.00 -17:00 Dieter Kuehn (Germany) reading from his book “Gertrud Kolmar; Life and Work, Time and Death”. German. Teddy Hall D
• 17.00 - 18:30 Thomas Sparr (Germany) and Orna Porath (Israel) reading from ''Ingeborg Bachmann – Paul Celan. Herzzeit. Correspondence/ Der Briefwechsel''. German. Teddy Hall D
Tuesday, February 17, 2009:
• 10:00-11:00 Israeli Buzz, moderated by Daisy Maryless (United States). English. Teddy Hall D
• 11.30 – 13.00 ''The Law to Protect Writers and the Inherent Value of Books; in Israel?'' Panel session with writers and publishers from Israel and France to discuss the adoption of the ''French Fixed Book Price Law'' in Israel. In cooperation with the French Embassy and the Book Publishers Association of Israel. Participants: Jean-Guy Boin, President of BIEF - The Bureau for the International Promotion of French Books; Paul Otschakovsky, Catherine Clément, Yann Apperry, Nicolas Fargues, Dan Franck, Stephane Heuet, Charles Berberian and Atiq Rahimi. Moderator: Roselyne Déry. French and Hebrew. Teddy D. Hall
• 17.00 – 18.30 ''Is it still difficult to speak about the Holocaust in Lithuania?'' Saulius Sužiedelis, Tomas Venclova, Irena Veisaite (all Lithuania) and Yitzhak Arad (Israel). Moderator: Leonidas Donskis (Lithuania). English. Teddy Hall D
• 19.00 - 20.00 Najem Wali (Germany) and Sami Michael (Israel) -''Journey into the Heart of the Enemy''. English. Teddy Hall D
Wednesday, February 18, 2009:
• 17.00 – 18.30 ''Yddishland: past and present''. Dov-Ber Kerler (Israel), Moti Zalkin (Israel) and Mindaugas Kvietkauskas (Lithuania). Moderator: Šarunas Liekis (Lithuania). English, Teddy Hall D
• 19.00 – 21.30 ''Is Peace Even Possible; Israeli Writers Distinguish between Hard Realities and Failures of Imagination''. Bernard Avishai (USA), Shraga F. Biran, Avraham Burg, Ruth Calderon, Shai Golden (all Israel), Moderator: Ethan Bronner (Israel), Jerusalem Bureau Chief, The New York Times. English. Teddy Hall D.
Thursday, February 19, 2009:
• 15:00-16:30 Jerusalem University Spiritual Heritage. Teddy Hall D
• 18.00 – 19.00 Awarding of the France Israel Foundation Award to Alain Manbanckou for his book ''Verre cassé'' In the presence of the President of the Foundation and His Excellency Mr. Jean-Michel Caza, Ambassador of France to Israel. Teddy Hall D
• 19.30 – 20.30 ''Esperanto and Zamenhof: Why an ''International Language''''. Prof. Amri Wandel (Israel). Hebrew. Teddy Hall D
Other Book Fair program highlights include Literary Cafe, Children's World, and Librarian Day.
Click on a day to see the full schedule of that day's book fair events:
Sunday / Day One
Monday / Day Two
Tuesday / Day Three
Wednesday / Day Four
Thursday / Day Five
Friday / Day Six
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