
Celebrating the Life and Work of Amatzia Porat
February 12 @ 11:00 pm - February 13 @ 2:30 am
The behind-the-scenes work of editor and translator Amatzia Porat is credited with shaping Hebrew and Israeli literature in the late 20th century. As Stanford Libraries has acquired Porat’s papers we will celebrate his life and work:
3:00pm Celebrating the Editor, a panel
Eitan Kensky – Moderator
Vered Shemtov -The Editor as a translator
Giddon Ticotsky – On Editing
Uri Cohen – The contribution of the Archive to the study of Hebrew Literature
4:00pm Yiftah Porat on his father
4:15pm Taube Center doctoral candidate Ariel Horowitz will read from his new bestseller The Ghost Editor (עורך צללים).
5:15pm A reception in celebration of Amatzia Porat.