The first edition of Séfer – The Jewish Literature Festival

Séfer Barcelona:
Jewish Literature Festival
Palau Robert
Thursday 22nd
of Septemberre
Friday 23rd
of September
11:00h Inauguration.
Presidents of the Jewish communities and
local authorities.
Presented by: Mozaika
10:00-11:30h Lost in translation- Table
of translators.
Rhoda Henelde Abecasís, Ana Bejarano, Manuel
Forcano and Eulàlia Sariola.
Presented and moderated by: Arnau Pons
11:30-12:30h Máximo José Kahn: Jewish,
Republican, exiled.
By Mario Martín Gijón
Presented by: Marta Marín-Dòmine
12:30-14:15h There is a Jewish Literature?
Table of editors: Valeria Bergalli (Minúscula),
Alejandro Dardik (Club Editor), Luis Solano
(Asteroide), Raúl Usón (Xordica)
The Jewish legacy:
Table of editors: Horacio Kohan (Sefarad
Editores), Pilar Romeu (Tirocinio), Ignasi Moreta
(Fragmenta), Juli Peradejordi (Obelisco)
Presented and moderated by David Aliaga
16:30-17:30h Ramon Llull and the Kabalah
of Barcelona.
Lola Badia talks with Mariona Vernet
17:30-18:30h Poetry and violence.
Arnau Pons talks with Xavier Antich
18:30-19:30h Exile and imposture.
Ariana Harwicz talks with Joana Masó
19:30-21:00h Closing ceremony of the first day
- Palau Robert gardens.
Lofoten Cello Duet + Recital of Poetry from
XIIIth to XIXth century : Mireia Ros (Actress and
Film director), Blanca-Llum Vidal (Poet) and Eva
McGowan (Songwriter).
Dramatized reading of some fragments of the play
“Ser-ho o no: Per acabar amb la qüestió jueva”
(“To be or not: To end the Jewish question”) by
Jean-Claude Grumberg. Dir.: Josep Mª Flotats.
Actors: Pep Planas and Dafnis Balduz.
* Entry is free of charge for all conferences and shows
* During the Festival there will be an outlet with a fine selection
of publications related to Jewish literature and philosophy
* Exhibition at the Palau Robert Gardens Sculpture “I am the tree of life”
by Lautaro Saavedra.
With the collaboration and participation of:
Estudis hebreus i arameus
Construcció d’identitats
literàries contemporànies,
Grup de Recerca Consolidat
de la Generalitat de Catalunya
11:30-12:30 Against the silence: Remembering
Elie Wiesel.
Rosa Pérez Zancas talks with Marisa Siguán
Presented by: Rosa Àuria Munté
12:30-13:45h Living on point: two voices of
Jewish modernity.
Sultana Wahnón (Franz Kafka) and Edgardo Dobry
(Alejandra Pizarnik)
Presented and moderated by: Teresa Shaw
16:00-17:00h
Identity and memory.
(simultaneous catalan-english translation)
Vicenç Villatoro talks with Lluís Bassat
17:00-18:00h Jews and conversos: dialect and
history. (simultaneous catalan-english translation)
Borja Vilallonga talks with Miquel Segura
18:00-19:00h Punks not dead: Publications on
paper. (simultaneous catalan-english translation)
«El funàmbul» (David Cuscó) «Tamid» (Pere
Casanellas) «Mozaika»
Presented and moderated by: Berta Ares
19:00-20:00h Jewish secularism: an oxymoron?
(simultaneous catalan-english translation)
Fania Oz-Salzberger talks with Marcelo
Dimentstein.
19:00-21:00h Closing ceremony of Sefer BCN Palau Robert gardens.
DJ Jam Session: Carlo Gossa by nowalls + An
artistic calligraphy action by Didac Pintó for
Hebrew, Pablo Khalid Casado for Arab and Adan
Liu for Chinese.
Artistic performance “The might of the word” by
actors from Escola d’Actors i Actrius Nancy TuñónJordi Oliver.