“Specters of the Future and Monsters of the Past: Writing (About) Jewish Fantasy” featuring Elana Gomel

Tue, November 1, 2022 7:00 PM at JMC Library

The talk will address Jewish history not as an agreed-upon narrative of national identity but rather as a haunted house of traumatic memories and apocalyptic premonitions. Dr. Gomel will argue that only by confronting ghosts of history can the cycle of violence be broken. And the only genre that brings us face to face with our monsters is fantasy