Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies

& Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Working Group on Middle East Literature in Transition: New Frontiers in the 21st Century

present

“I have no mother tongue, only my adopted language is my home.”

Esty G. Hayim Author; Teaches creative writing at Seminar Hakibutzim College, Israel

Thursday, April 3, 2014 • 2:00–3:30pm Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 38 Kirkland Street, Room 102

Esty G. Haim, daughter of Holocaust survivors, was born in Israel. She studied theater and acting

at Tel Aviv University and performed in leading theater houses in Israel. She published four novels and an anthology of short stories, for which she received a prestigious literary prize. She writes about the ongoing battle of first generation Holocaust survivors with their memories and

guilt, and with the complicated role of the second generations as their parents’ protectors.