On Wednesday, February 21, award-winning Israeli novelist and clinical psychologist Ayelet Gundar-Goshen will discuss her new book, The Wolf Hunt, and the impact of trauma in her literary work. Working with terror victims in Israel after October 7, she will also discuss the impact of mass trauma and the possibility of healing.
Wednesday, February 21, 20246:00 PM - 7:30 PM (Pacific Time)Royce Hall, Room 314
Organized by the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies.
About the Book
In Gundar-Goshen’s latest novel, The Wolf Hunt, the lives of an Israeli family based in Silicon Valley are shattered after a terror attack on a local synagogue. The novel is an exploration of the fault lines in a community, a school, and a family as an Israeli mother begins to suspect her teenage son of committing a terrible hate crime as revenge. It is also a piercing, psychological portrait of the relationship between parents and their children, a story about a mother forced to take on the role of a detective, in search of a truth that might destroy her. An international bestseller, The Wolf Hunt has been published in 17 countries and met with rave reviews around the world. Winner of WIZO prize, Italy, 2023.
The Wolf Hunt will be available for purchase at the event. There will be a book signing with the author after her talk and audience Q&A.
About the Speakers
Award-winning author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen is the author of four novels, One Night, Markovitch; Waking Lions; The Liar; and, most recently, The Wolf Hunt. She is the recipient of the Sapir Prize for Literature of Israel—the country’s most prestigious annual literary award—as well as other European and American literary prizes, and her works have been translated into more than 14 languages. Gundar-Goshen is a contributor to BBC's The Cultural Frontline, Financial Times, Time Magazine, The Telegraph, and The Atlantic. She has lectured at UC Berkeley, Columbia University, UCLA, and Carleton College, among other institutions.
Gundar-Goshen is also a practicing clinical psychologist. After October 7, the psychiatric hospital where she works declared a state of emergency. Since then, she has been working with vicitms of the terrorist attack, and discovering how narrative can play a role in helping to overcome trauma.
"Gundar-Goshen is adept at instilling emotional depth" –The New York Times
Dr. Tamar Hofnung (moderator) a political sociologist specializing in the politics shaping gender and racial equality policies in Israel and the United States. She received her PhD in Political Science with a specialization in Human Rights from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and conducted her postdoctoral studies as a Rothschild Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Department of Sociology. Her research at the UCLA Nazarian Center is focused on affirmative action and violence against women policies in Israel and the United States. Hofnung’s most recent research project examines the impact of unsystematic data gathering—and the lack of evaluation guidelines—on policymaking related to diversity and discrimination in Israel.
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Sponsor(s): Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies