Join us on March 20th at 11am EST for a virtual book talk with Delphine Horvilleur author of “How Isn’t It Going?: Conversations After October 7.” Horvilleur will be in conversation with the Honorable Jacques Saada, Co-President of the Montreal Holocaust Museum.
- Discussion in French
- March 20th at 11:00 am EST online
- Free reservations required
Devastated by the massacre perpetrated by Hamas on October 7, 2023, Delphine Horvilleur sees her world shatter. As a rabbi dedicated to supporting and alleviating the suffering of others, she suddenly finds herself in a state of shock, feeling powerless and voiceless.
In this fevered state, she pens this small yet powerful treatise on survival, a slice of self-analysis that reconnects her with her existential foundations. The text unfolds through ten real or imagined conversations: with her pain, her grandparents, Jewish paranoia, her children, Israel, and more.
Horvilleur seamlessly moves between the intimate and the universal, intertwining exegesis of sacred texts with societal analysis. She skillfully balances acknowledging the gravity of her subject with defying it through humor. The result is a book that charts a path from trauma and distress to healing and recovery; from anxiety and doubt to reassurance and wisdom.
Free reservations are required through Jlive.
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Delphine Horvilleur, born in Nancy, France, in 1974, is a prominent figure in the realms of Jewish culture and religion in France. Alongside her career as a writer, she is one of the rabbis of the Liberal Jewish Movement of France (JEM), in Paris. She is one of the founding members of KeReM, the council of French-speaking liberal rabbis. Delphine Horvilleur also directs the online journal of Jewish thought TENOUA. Since 2018, she has been leading the Tenoua Workshops (“Ateliers Tenoua”), study and dialogue sessions that regularly bring together some 300 people every month in Paris.
The Honorable Jacques Saada is currently Co-President of the Montreal Holocaust Museum. He was first elected as a Member of Parliament in June 1997 and has served as Deputy Whip of the Government, as Vice-Chair of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, and as a member of the Board of Internal Economy. In 2003, he was named Leader of the Government in the House of Commons and Minister responsible for Democratic Reform. From 1998 to 2000, he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Solicitor General of Canada. He has been Chair of the Canadian Section of the Canada-United States Permanent Joint Board on Defence since 1998. Prior to his election to the House of Commons, he worked as a teacher and school administrator in Quebec and France, as a lecturer in translation at Concordia University, as a consultant with the Canadian International Development Agency and as an advisor to the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans.
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