Authors Talking Art: The Writers Festival at the Israel Museum

 The Wide Open Eyes of the Angel of History

Michal Govrin

The novelist and director Prof. Michal Govrin embarks on a journey inspired by the exhibitions Twilight Over Berlin and New Types, traveling through the night that falls on Berlin towards the Hebrew letter. A conversation with Benjamin and Scholem, Beckett and Agnon, Celan and Derrida, on the fine line between devastation and redemption.

Moderator: Shua Ben-Ari, assistant to the chief curator of the Fine Arts wing

Meeting point: entrance pavilion. We recommend that you arrive by 10:45.

Tickets are available by phone: 02-6771300 on the Museum website, or at the box office.

in the photo: Michal Govrin

photo by: Noam Warsavski

In collaboration with the Israel Museum, Jerusalem