Resource person: Carlie MacPherson library@jccottawa.com or 613-798-9818 ext. 245

Location: Social Hall (A+B+C) (Soloway JCC) | 21 Nadolny Sachs Private, Ottawa, ON, K2A 1R9

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Join Yair Mintzker in conversation with Hernan Tesler-Mabé

In I, Wandering Jew, National Jewish Book Award–winning historian Yair Mintzker traces the tale of of Ahasversus back to its source, follows its many metamorphoses through five centuries, and relates it to the fraught present moment. A work of history that reads like a detective story, I, Wandering Jew is also part memoir. As Mintzker discovers affinities between his own story and that of the Wandering Jew, the surprising history of an old antisemitic trope and its meanings becomes a profound meditation on home and exile, Judaism and Christianity, poetry and truth, the deep pastand the present.

YAIR MINTZKER is a professor of history at Princeton University. He is the author, most recently, of The Many Deaths of Jew Süss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew (Princeton), which won the National Jewish Book Award and was named a book of the year by The Financial Times.

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