Galicia, Mon Amour: LEON WIESELTIER in conversation with DANIEL MENDELSOHN January 16, 2007

Leon Wieseltier, author of Kaddish, is the literary editor of The New Republic

Daniel Mendelsohn, author of the recently published, THE LOST: A Search for Six of Six Million, is the Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard College

An evening with two of America’s pre-eminent critics and authors as they discuss the torments and exhilarations of their pilgrimages to the past.

Last fall, Leon Wieseltier traveled for the first time to the remains of his parents’ towns in Galicia. As it happens, Daniel Mendelsohn’s family, also largely destroyed in the Holocaust, came from a town only a short distance away. These two distinguished Galitsianers will compare notes on the ruins of their common origins.

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