FSG Presents: Adina Hoffman in Conversation with Lisa Cohen

Join author Adina Hoffman for a celebration of Till We Have Built Jerusalem, a closely observed portrait of modern Jerusalem via three architects essential to its construction: Erich Mendelsohn, who fled Hitler’s Berlin, Austen St. Barbe Harrison, Palestine’s chief government architect from 1922 to 1937, and the mysterious, all but forgotten Spyro Houris. Written in prose at once precise and ruminative, “Adina Hoffman,” writes Vivian Gornick, “does for Jerusalem what great writers have done for Paris, London, and New York: with charm, skill, and originality, she weaves together a vivid social and architectural history of one of the fabled cities of the world. With Lisa Cohen, author of All We Know, another uniquely hybrid work of biography and social study focusing on the lives of three radical but underknown modernist females, which was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award a few years ago.











When: Wed., Apr. 20, 2016 at 7:00 pm
Where: McNally Jackson
52 Prince St.
212-274-1160
Price: Free
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Join author Adina Hoffman for a celebration of Till We Have Built Jerusalem, a closely observed portrait of modern Jerusalem via three architects essential to its construction: Erich Mendelsohn, who fled Hitler’s Berlin, Austen St. Barbe Harrison, Palestine’s chief government architect from 1922 to 1937, and the mysterious, all but forgotten Spyro Houris. Written in prose at once precise and ruminative, “Adina Hoffman,” writes Vivian Gornick, “does for Jerusalem what great writers have done for Paris, London, and New York: with charm, skill, and originality, she weaves together a vivid social and architectural history of one of the fabled cities of the world. With Lisa Cohen, author of All We Know, another uniquely hybrid work of biography and social study focusing on the lives of three radical but underknown modernist females, which was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award a few years ago.

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