{"id":10077,"date":"2011-02-06T04:11:32","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T11:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=10077"},"modified":"2011-02-06T04:12:46","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T11:12:46","slug":"25th-jerusalem-international-book-fair-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=10077","title":{"rendered":"25th Jerusalem International Book Fair Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10078\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10078\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/yossi-cohen-people-books.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10078\" title=\"yossi cohen people books\" src=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/yossi-cohen-people-books.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/yossi-cohen-people-books.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/yossi-cohen-people-books-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10078\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Yossi Cohen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=10069\" target=\"_blank\">25th Jerusalem International Book Fair <\/a>will take place from February 20 &#8211; 25, 2011 at the Jerusalem International Convention Center (ICC \u2013 Binyaney HaUma). Entrance to the Fair is free and the events listed below are open to the public (events in English &amp; English translation provided are in bold) &#8211; seating is limited, entrance is on a space-available basis &amp; the schedule is subject to change without notice:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Monday, February 21, 2011<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>11:00-12:00 &#8220;Poetics &amp; Semiotics&#8221;. Meeting with Prof. Solomon Marcus (Romania) English. Literary Caf\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>12:30 \u2013 13:30\u00a0&#8220;Aharon Appelfeld as a Postmodern Writer&#8221;. The writer and researcher Dr. Ketzia Alon (Israel) meets the writer Aharon Appelfeld (Israel). Hebrew. Literary Caf\u00e9<\/p>\n<p><strong>13:30 &#8211; 15:00 Open Lecture on Russian literature &#8220;Literary Criticism Project \u201c100 Poets\u201d. Moderator\u00a0 Dmitry Bak (Russia). Russian (with parallel English translation). Russian stand<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>15:00 \u2013 15:45\u00a0&#8220;Intimate Conversation&#8221;. Prof. Michael P. Kramer (Israel) meets the writer Robert Cohen (USA) English. Literary Caf\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>15:00 \u2013 15:30 Contemporary Romanian Theatre: \u201cStop the Tempo!\u201d by Gianina C\u0103rbunariu. A dramatic reading by students of the Romanian language course at the Romanian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv and other volunteers (Israel). Moderator: Gabriela \u015etefan (Romania). Hebrew. Teddy Hall D<\/p>\n<p>15:30 \u2013 16:30 Reading from the volume Reverse Counting, Vremea P.H., Bucharest, 2010. Madelaine Davidsohn (Romania\/Israel) Moderator: Ioan \u015etiubea-journalist (Israel), Ana Andreescu (Romania). Romanian, Hebrew. Romanian stand<\/p>\n<p><strong>16:00 \u2013 16:45\u00a0&#8220;The Prisoner of Tehran&#8221; \u2013 A Personal and Feminine Story. The film director Anat Zuria (&#8220;Tehora&#8221;, &#8220;Mekudeshet&#8221;) meets the writer Marina Nemat (Canada) about her book &#8220;The Prisoner of Tehran&#8221;. English. Literary Caf\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>16:00 &#8211; 17:00 Story reading with Gali Segev (Israel). Hebrew. Ages: from 4 to 7. Children&#8217;s World.<\/p>\n<p><strong>16:30 \u2013 17:30 Presentation of the volume &#8220;Hebrew Fairy Tales Anthology&#8221;, edited by CNI Coresi, Bucharest 2010 Moderator: Laura Maria Albani (Romania). Romanian, English Romanian stand<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>17:00 \u2013 18:00\u00a0&#8220;Greetings and Kisses to All&#8221; &#8211; The story of Anne Frank\u2019s family. With the writer Mirjam Pressler (Germany) and Buddy and Gerti Elias (Switzerland, Anne Frank&#8217;s cousin). German\/ Hebrew simultaneous translation. Literary Caf\u00e9<\/p>\n<p>17:00-18:00 Encounters with famous teenager writer \u2013 Leat Rotner (Israel). Hebrew.<br \/>\nAges: from 10 to 15. Children&#8217;s World<\/p>\n<p>17:00 &#8211; 19:00 &#8220;Leaders of the Yishuv during the Shoah&#8221;. Prof. Dan Laor, \u201cNatan Alterman and the Shoah\u201d, Prof. Aviva Halamish, &#8220;Meir Ya&#8217;ari and the Shoah&#8221;, Prof. Dina Porat, Session Chair, &#8220;David Ben-Gurion and the Shoah&#8221;. Hebrew. Teddy Hall D.<\/p>\n<p>17:30 \u2013 18:30 Open conversation \u201cIl futuro del libro\u201d. Angelo Pezzana (Italy). Italian. Italian stand<\/p>\n<p>17.30 &#8211; 18.30 Meeting with Galila Ron-Feder. Moderator: Modan Publishing. Hebrew.<br \/>\nTzomet-Sfarim Stand<\/p>\n<p>18:00 &#8211; 19:00 You&#8217;ll Like Germany&#8221;. Autobiography by Rafael Seligmann. Rafael Seligmann (Germany). Moderator Ren\u00e9 Strien, Aufbau Verlag (Germany). German. Foyer Teddy Hall<\/p>\n<p>18.15 \u2013 19.15 &#8220;History and Reality&#8221;. The writer Nir Baram (Israel) about his book &#8220;Good People&#8221; and the writer Andrzej Bart (Poland) about his book &#8220;Fly&#8217;s Factory&#8221;. Moderator: the writer Sarah Blau. Polish and Hebrew translation. Literary Caf\u00e9<\/p>\n<p>18: 30 \u2013 19.15 Reading French authors: a workshop created by \u201cVice Versa bookshop\u201d (Atelier de lecture \u00e0 voix haute). Dani\u00e8le Kriegel and her class (all France-Israel). French. French stand<\/p>\n<p>19.30 \u2013 20.30.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cFirst novel but not at all first book: Laurent Cohen\u2019s book : SOL \u2013 Actes Sud publisher\u201d. Laurent Cohen (France-Isra\u00ebl). French. French stand<\/p>\n<p><strong>19.30 \u2013 20.30\u00a0&#8220;A Real Fiction \u2013 Writing on Crime and Criminals in Italy and Israel&#8221;. The writer Liad Shoham (Israel) meets the writers Gianrico Carofiglio and Carlo Lucarelli (Italy). Moderator: Dr. Claudia Rosenzweig. English. Literary Caf\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>19:30 &#8211; 21:00 \u201cShem\u2019s Language in Yaakov\u2019s Tents\u201d- Jewish classical texts in Russian translations. Andrew Grafov (Russia), Meir Levinov, Shlomo Krol, Uri Kamyshov, Yaakov Sinichkin, Dov Kontorer, Menachem Yaglom, Michael Yakhilevich (all Israel). Moderator: Boruch Gorin (Russia). Russian. Teddy Hall D<\/p>\n<p>21.00 \u2013 22.00 &#8220;The Day Before Happiness&#8221;. The writer Erri De Luca (Italy) meets his friend the chef Rafi Adar (Israel) about his book &#8220;The Day Before Happiness&#8221;; and about love, music &amp; Napoli. Italian and Hebrew. Literary Caf\u00e9<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Tuesday, February 22, 2011<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>10:00 &#8211; 12:00 Galaade Editions and ITHl present: Sisters, not enemies: Telling the story of Jews and Arabs in Israel in another voice. Conversation between Annette Levy-Willard and Avirama Golan, author of Lettres \u00e0 ma s\u0153ur palestinienne (Galaade \u00c9ditions, Paris, France, to be published in April 2011). Avirama Golan (Israel). Moderator: Annette Levy-Willard (France). English. Teddy Hall D<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>10:00 &#8211; 12:30 Symposium on E-Publishing and its Cultural Aspects.<br \/>\nIn cooperation with Publishers Association of Israel. Sponsored by Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. With special thanks to Dr. Yossi Vardi and Prof. Yoav Yair.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>10:00-11:00 Panel I: &#8220;The Digital Age \u2013 A New Definition of Publishing?&#8221;<br \/>\nSantiago de la Mora (UK), Steven Greenberg (USA) and Guy Rolnik (Israel). Moderator: Dr. Yossi Vardi (Israel). English. Dulzin Hall A<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>11:30-12:30 Panel II: &#8220;Education in a Digital World&#8221; Laurie Racine (USA), Dr. Yosi Ben-Dov (Israel), Shai Reshef (Israel), Gila Ben-Har (Israel). Moderator: Prof. Yoav Yair (Israel). English. Dulzin Hall A<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>11:00-12:00 &#8220;A Dark Chapter \u2013 An Enlightened Literature&#8221;. The writers Filip Florian (Romania),Tomas Zmeskal (Czech Republic) and Petra Hulova (Czech Republic). Moderator: Noa Manheim (Israel). English. Literary Caf\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>12:15 \u2013 13:15\u00a0&#8220;On the Book Shelf between Torino and Jerusalem&#8221;. The writer David Eherlich (Israel) meets the writer Angelo Pezzana (Italy). English. Literary Caf\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>14:00 &#8211; 17:00 General Assembly, Book Publishers Association of Israel. Hebrew. Dulzin Hall A<\/p>\n<p>15:00 &#8211; 16:30 Presentation of the new book \u201cReplaced Windows\u201d by Inna Lisnyanskaya. Russian. Russian stand<\/p>\n<p>16:00 \u2013 17:00 Book Presentation: The Teilachers. Michel Bergmann (Germany). Moderator: Nikolaus Hansen. German. Foyer Teddy Hall<\/p>\n<p><strong>16:00 \u2013 17:00 &#8220;Half Brother&#8221;. The writer Amichai Shalev (Israel) meets the writer Lars Saabye Christensen (Norway), about his book &#8220;Half Brother&#8221; and contemporary literature in Scandinavia. English. Literary Caf\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>17:00 &#8211; 18:00 Publisher&#8217;s Stories: Dr. Susanne Sch\u00fcssler (Wagenbach Publisher), Antje Kunstmann (Publisher), Dr. Thomas Sparr (Suhrkamp),\u00a0 Ren\u00e9 Strien (Aufbau), Nikolaus Hansen, Arche (all Germany), Avram Kantor (Hakibbutz Hameuchad-Sifriat Poalim, Israel), Israel Carmel (Publisher, Israel). Moderator: Stefan Weidle &#8211; The Kurt Wolff Foundation (Germany). English. Foyer Teddy Hall<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>17.00 \u2013 18.00\u00a0&#8220;Shalev &amp; Abulafia Create Books for Children (and their parents) &#8220;. Meir Shalev (Israel) speaks about children&#8217;s books with his partner the illustrator Yossi Abulafia (Israel). Hebrew. Literary Caf\u00e9<\/p>\n<p>17:00-18:00 Encounters with famous comics illustrator &#8211; Uri Fink (Israel). Hebrew. Ages: from 6 to 26. Children&#8217;s World<\/p>\n<p><strong>17:00 \u2013 19:00 Symposium on Conflict Resolution: Politics &amp; Literary Representation.<br \/>\nSponsored by Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck.<br \/>\nWith special thanks to Prof. Shlomo Avineri.<br \/>\nDubravka Ugresic (Croatia\/ Netherlands), Victor Erofeyev (Russia), L\u00e1szl\u00f3\u00a0 Garaczi (Hungary), Adam Michnik (Poland), Enrique Krauze\u00a0 (Mexico), Prof. Fania Oz-Salzberger (Israel). Moderator: Prof. Shlomo Avineri (Israel). English. Dulzin Hall B<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>18:30 \u2013 19:30 \u00a0&#8220;Franz Kafka and the Unexpected Reader&#8221;. Prof. Galili Shahar (Israel) meets Prof. Dr. Klaus Wagenbach (Germany). English. Literary Caf\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>19.00 &#8211; 20.00 Launch &#8211; Yehuda Berg&#8217;s new book in Hebrew. Yehuda Berg (USA). Moderator: Zeev Zoberman &#8211; The Kabbalah Center TLV (Israel). English\/Hebrew. Tzomet-Sfarim Stand<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>19:30 &#8211; 20:30 Book Presentation: Berthold Beitz \u2013 The Biography. Keynote by Ambassador Dr. Dr. h.c. Harald Kindermann. Joachim K\u00e4ppner (Author, Germany), Irena Steinfeldt (Dept. Righteous Among the Nations, Yad Vashem, Israel), Moderator: Elisabeth Ruge (Berlin Verlag, Germany). English. Foyer Teddy Hall<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>17.00 \u2013 18.00 \u201cFamous French writer Pierre Assouline presents: VIES DE JOB, his new book \u2013 Gallimard publishing\u201d. Pierre Assouline (France), Moderator: Roselyne Dery (Israel\/France). French. French Stand<\/p>\n<p>18.00 \u2013 19.00 \u201cA new publication in French of Israeli writer Mira Maguen: L\u2019avenir nous le dira, Anna \u2013 Mercure de France publisher\u201d. Mira Maguen (France), Roselyne D\u00e9ry (Israel). Hebrew \u2013 French. French Stand<\/p>\n<p>18:00 \u2013 19:00 Open Conversation. Gianrico Carofiglio (Italy). Italian stand<\/p>\n<p>19.00 \u2013 19.30 Signature: Pierre Assouline : Vies de Job &#8211;\u00a0 Gallimard publishing; Michal Govrin:\u00a0 Sur le vif \u2013 Sabine Wespieser publisher. French Stand<\/p>\n<p>19.30 \u2013 21.30 \u201c100 Candles for GALLIMARD Publisher\u201d. Antoine Gallimard (France), Pierre Assouline (France), Jean Mattern (France), Maylis de Kerangal (France), Amos Oz, Zeruya Shalev, Alona Kimhi, Zev Birger (all Israel). French \u2013 Hebrew. Teddy Hall D<\/p>\n<p><strong>19:30 &#8211; 21:00 Round Table &#8211; Focus on Issues of Modern Literature. Lyudmila Ulitskaya (Russia), Meir Shalev, Etgar Keret (both Israel). Moderator: Linor Goralik (Israel). Hebrew, Russian (with parallel English translation). Dulzin Hall A<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>20:00 \u2013 21:00\u00a0&#8220;Conversation for Two&#8221;. The Jerusalem Prize winner, the writer Ian McEwan (UK) meets the writer Meir Shalev (Israel). English. Literary Caf\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>21:15 \u2013 22:00\u00a0&#8220;Two Languages, Two Stories&#8221;. The writer and editor Dror Mishani (Israel) meets the writer Sayed Kashua (Israel). Hebrew. Literary Caf\u00e9<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Wednesday, February 23, 2011<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>09:30 \u2013 13.00 Librarian Day. Organized by Ministry of Culture and Sport, Cultural Directorate \u2013 Libraries Department, in association with the Israeli Center for Libraries. Dulzin Hall A<\/p>\n<p><strong>11.00 &#8211; 12.00 Czes\u0142aw Mi\u0142osz and Abraham Sutzkever: Two Poets of the Lost Vilnius&#8221;. Poet, essayist and editor Krzysztof Czy\u017cewsky (Poland) meets Prof.\u00a0 David G. Roskies (Israel). Moderator: Literary critic and translator Dr. Mindaugas Kvietkauskas (Lithuania). From the Play:&#8221;Twins&#8221; &#8211; the actress: Hadas Kalderon (Sutzkever&#8217;s granddaughter), violin: Chaya Livni, music: Daniel Galay, director: Dorona Ben-Dor. English. Literary Caf\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>12:00 \u2013 19:00 Momedia, organized by CET (Centre for Educational Technology in Israel) and the Stiftung Lesen (Germany). Dulzin Hall B<\/p>\n<p>12.30 \u2013 13.30\u00a0&#8220;On Grand Russian Literature &#8220;. The writer David Marakish (Israel) meets the writer Victor Erofeyev (Russia). Russian and Hebrew. Literary Caf\u00e9<\/p>\n<p>15:00 &#8211; 15:30\u00a0 Literary Landscapes I: Poetry from Jerusalem. Lyris Kreis Jerusalem (rainStein, Germany). German. Foyer Teddy Hall<\/p>\n<p>15:30 &#8211; 16:15 Literary Landscapes II: Poetry from Bukovina&amp; Bratislava. Tuvia R\u00fcbner, Ilana Shmueli, Manfred Winkler (all Israel). Moderator: Frank Schablewski (Germany). German. Foyer Teddy Hall<\/p>\n<p><strong>16:00 \u2013 17:00\u00a0&#8220;On the Hidden and the Revealed&#8221;. Prof. Moshe Idel (Israel) meets Prof. Andrei Oi\u015fteanu (Romania). English. Literary Caf\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>16:15 \u2013 17:00 Literary Landscapes III: Poetry from Berlin. Jan Wagner (Berlin, Germany). Moderator: Lorenz Wesemann (Germany). German. Foyer Teddy Hall<\/p>\n<p><strong>17:00 \u2013 18:00\u00a0&#8220;Longing, Memory and Home&#8221;. The writer Alex Epstein (Israel) meets the writer Jenny Erpenbeck (Germany). Moderator: Shiri Lev-Ari (Israel). English. Literary Caf\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>17:00 \u2013 18:30 Book launch \u2013 Shvo 22-23 ; Poetry Magazine\u00a0 with Poets of Even Hoshen Press and Guest (Israel). Moderator: Uzi Agassi (Israel). Hebrew. Teddy D Hall<\/p>\n<p>17:00-18:00 Tzomet-Sfarim welcomes Ronny Someck (Israel). Hebrew. Tzomet-Sfarim Stand<\/p>\n<p><strong>18.00 \u2013 19.00 &#8220;Berliner Runde&#8221;. The artist Claire Waffel (Berlin), the writer Jenny Erpenbeck (Berlin), the writer and publisher Prof. Dr. Klaus Wagenbach (Berlin), the poet Jan Wagner (Berlin), the writer Arye Shalicar (Berlin\/Jerusalem), Prof. Fania Oz-Salzberger (Israel), Ambassador Dr. Dr. h.c. Harald Kindermann (Germany). Moderator:\u00a0 Thomas Sparr (Germany). English. Literary Caf\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>18:00 &#8211; 19:00 Authors&#8217; Book Signing, Svetlana Shenbrunn, Yulia Viner, Daniel Kluger. Russian stand<\/p>\n<p>18:00 \u2013 19:00 Presentation of the book:\u00a0 Un giorno perfetto. Melania Mazzucco (Italy). Italian. Italian Stand<\/p>\n<p><strong>18:00 \u2013 18:45 Reading from the volume \u201cMotley\u201d, Paralela 45, Pitesti, Romania, 2010 Riri Manor-writer, author of the book (Romania\/Israel). Moderator: Zoltan Terner (Israel), Ana Andreescu (Romania). Romanian, English and Hebrew. Romanian stand<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>18:45 \u2013 19:30 Reading from the volume \u201cA man from the East\u201d, Tractus Arte p.h., Bucharest, 2010. Ioan Grosan-writer, author of the book (Romania) Moderator: Zoltan Terner (Israel), Ana Andreescu (Romania). Romanian, English and Hebrew. Romanian stand<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>19.00 \u2013 19.45\u00a0&#8220;Passion for Life \u2013 Passion for Death&#8221;. The writer Yoram Meltzer (Israel) meets the writers Jesus Ferrero and Fernando Iwasaki (Spain). English. Literary Caf\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>19.00 \u2013 20.30 \u201cWriters from Israel \u2013 abroad frontiers. Launching of new Israeli books published in France of Benny Barbash and Yehoshua Kenaz\u201d. Benny Barbash (Israel) and \u201cassociation of Israeli writers in French language\u201d. French \u2013 Hebrew. French Stand<\/p>\n<p>19:30 \u2013 20:30 Meeting Michael Krueger, 2011 Friend of Jerusalem Awardee (Author, Poet, Publisher &#8211; Hanser, Germany). German. Foyer Teddy Hall<\/p>\n<p>19:30 &#8211; 21:00 Wonders, miracles and the art of Jewish tales (following in the footsteps of the book \u201cIn Praise of Besht\u201d and the anthology \u201cStories about Baal Shem Tov\u201d by Shai Agnon). Michael Weisskopf, Sergey Goizman, Michael Kravtsov, Dinah Rubina (all Israel). Moderator: Menachem Yaglom (Israel). Russian. Teddy Hall D<\/p>\n<p>20.30 \u2013 21.00 Signature: Benny Barbash : Little big bang\u00a0 &#8211; Zulma publishing. French Stand<\/p>\n<p><strong>20:30 &#8211; 21:30 &#8220;Conversation for Two&#8221;. The writer Prof. Umberto Eco (Italy) meets the writer A.B. Joshua (Israel). English. Literary Caf\u00e9<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Thursday, February 24, 2011<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>11.00 \u2013 11.45 Oren Nahari (Israel) meets the writer Guy-Philippe Goldstein (France) about his book &#8220;Babel Minute Z\u00e9ro&#8221;. English. Literary Caf\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>12.00 \u2013 12:45 &#8220;A Personal Japan&#8221;. Oren Nahari (Israel) meets Prof. Ben-Ami Shiloni (Israel) about his latest book. Hebrew. Literary Caf\u00e9<\/p>\n<p>13:00 &#8211; 13:30 &#8220;Language, Ritual and Poetics in Ancient India&#8221;. Dr. Yohanan Grinshpon (Isarel) meets Prof. David Shulman (Israel) about his latest book. Hebrew. Literary Caf\u00e9<\/p>\n<p>13:00 \u2013 14:30 Debate on the book \u201cNarcotics in Romanian Culture. History, Religion and Literature\u201d. Andrei Oisteanu (Romania). Moderator: Gina Pana (Romania). Romanian. Romanian stand<\/p>\n<p>15:00 &#8211; 17:00 Authors&#8217; Book Signing, Olesya Nikolayeva, Jleg Chukhontsev, Maxim Amelin, Dmitry Bak. Russian stand<\/p>\n<p>16:00 \u2013 17:00\u00a0&#8220;What&#8217;s Left?&#8221;. The researcher Bilha Ben Eliyahu (Israel) meets the writer Eli Amir (Israel) about his latest book. Hebrew. Literary Caf\u00e9<\/p>\n<p><strong>17.00 \u2013 18.00 &#8220;The Changing Jewish Kitchen &#8211; Is Jewish food still Jewish food and what is it?&#8221; Joan Nathan (USA), Gil Hovav (Israel), Israel Aharoni (Israel). Moderator: Mark Furstenberg (USA). English. Literary Caf\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>17:00 &#8211; 18:00 Tell it to me! Vanessa Fogel (Israel\/Germany). Moderator: Nadine Meyer. German. Foyer Teddy Hall<\/p>\n<p>17:00-18:00 Encounters with very famous children writer \u2013 Smadar Shir (Israel). Hebrew. Ages: from 6 to 9. Children&#8217;s World<\/p>\n<p>17:30 \u2013 18:30 Open Conversation, Sveva Casati Modignani (Italy). Italian stand<\/p>\n<p>18:00 \u2013 19:00 \u00a0&#8220;Secrets &amp; Lies&#8221;. Writers Moshe Sakal (Israel), Sami Bardugo (Israel) and Almog Behar (Israel). Moderator: Dror Mishani (Israel). Hebrew. Literary Caf\u00e9<\/p>\n<p>18.00 \u2013 19.00 \u201cLaunching of last book of the French writer Jean Mattern : De lait et de miel \u2013 Sabine Wespiser publishing\u201d. Jean Mattern (France), Roselyne D\u00e9ry (France-Israel). French. French stand<\/p>\n<p>19:00 \u2013 19.30 Signature: Jean-Christophe Rufin : Katiba \u2013 Flammarion publishing. French Stand<\/p>\n<p>19:00 &#8211; 19:45 Contemporary Romanian Theatre: \u201cAliens with Extraordinary Skills\u201d by Saviana St\u0103nescu. A dramatic reading by students of the Romanian language course at the Romanian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv (Israel) and other volunteers (Israel). Moderator: Gabriela \u015etefan (Romania). Hebrew. Teddy Hall D<\/p>\n<p>19.15 &#8211; 20.00 &#8220;Lashon Hakodesh&#8221; \u2013 Foreign Language?&#8221;. Avraham Burg (Israel) meets the writer Haim Beer (Israel). Hebrew. Literary Caf\u00e9<\/p>\n<p>20.30 \u2013 21.30 \u00a0&#8220;The Sun King&#8221;. The Knesset Member Daniel Ben-Simon (Israel) meets Jean-Christophe Rufin (France) &#8211; writer, doctor and the president of Action Against Hunger and one of the founders of M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res. French and Hebrew. Literary Caf\u00e9<\/p>\n<p><strong>20:30-21:30 Tzomet-Sfarim welcomes Avraham Burg (Israel). Hebrew\/English. Tzomet-Sfarim Stand<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 25th Jerusalem International Book Fair will take place from February 20 &#8211; 25, 2011 at the Jerusalem International Convention Center (ICC \u2013 Binyaney HaUma). 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