Award-winning author Savyon Liebrecht, lauded as an outstanding voice in contemporary Hebrew literature and one of Israel's leading women writers of fiction, will inaugurate The Dr. Gila Ramras-Rauch Memorial Lecture Series on November 22. A close friend of Ramras-Rauch z'l, the former Lewis H. and Selma Weinstein Professor of Jewish Literature at Hebrew College, Liebrecht will speak at 7:30 p.m. (at Young Israel, 62 Green Street, Brookline) while on tour for her new book, A Good Place for the Night: Stories (Persea Books, 2006). The event, co-sponsored by the Israeli Consulate, honors one of Hebrew College's most cherished professors.

Underscoring Ramras-Rauch's deep commitment to introducing noted Israeli intellectuals and writers to the Boston Jewish and academic communities, each year the Ramras-Rauch Memorial Lecture Series will present a prominent Israeli or Jewish literary figure. Indeed, it was Ramras-Rauch who first invited Savyon Liebrecht to Hebrew College in May 2002 to participate in Hebrew College's inaugural events for the Newton Centre campus. When Ramras-Rauch died in February, Liebrecht remembered her fondly: "You and I lost a very good friend, and so did Hebrew literature."

The annual programs will be supported by The Dr. Gila Ramras-Rauch Memorial Lecture Series Fund, which will cover the cost of bringing a lecturer to Greater Boston and hosting him or her for a week- or semester-long residency at Hebrew College. For more information about the Fund or the Liebrecht event, please contact Ariela Lipton at 617-559-8724 or alipton@hebrewcollege.edu.

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