ACCLAIMED AUTHOR SERIES: Lee Yaron

Name: ACCLAIMED AUTHOR SERIES: Lee Yaron
Start: 2025-01-15T19:00:00-06:00
Location: The J KC - Jewish Community Center

Schedule

Wed, 15 Jan, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

The J KC - Jewish Community Center | Overland Park, KS

Acclaimed Author Series: Lee Yaron
Date: January 15, 2025, 7:00pm
Location: Jewish Community Campus
Book: "10/7 One Hundred Human Stories"
Moderator: Neta Meltzer, Interim Executive Director, JCRB | AJC
This event is part of the Acclaimed Author Series, presented by Jewish Experiences, A Collaboration of Jewish Federation and The J, and is supported by the Sam Schultz Jewish Book Fair Fund.
"10/7 One Hundred Human Stories" costs $30. Pre-order yours by Jan. 6, 2025 and save 15%. Limited copies will be available at the event at full price.
Book Summary:
The definitive account of the 10/7 massacre through the stories of its victims and the communities they called home.
A masterful work of investigative journalism by acclaimed Haaretz reporter Lee Yaron, 10/7 chronicles the massacre that ignited a war through the stories of more than 100 civilians. These stories are the products of extensive interviews with survivors, the bereaved, and first responders in Israel and beyond. The victims run the gamut from left-wing kibbutzniks and Burning Man-esque partiers to radical right-wingers, from Bedouins and Israeli Arabs to Thai and Nepalese guest workers, peace activists, elderly Holocaust survivors, refugees from Ukraine and Russia, pregnant women, and babies.
Lee Yaron has been a journalist with Haaretz, Israel’s oldest and most award-winning newspaper, for nearly a decade. Her investigative reporting has resulted in the founding of state-level commissions and the changing of substantial bodies of Israeli policy and law. She is an elected member-representative of the Executive Committee of the Union of Israeli Journalists. She has also written and directed acclaimed theater productions notable for their use of found materials, including official governmental texts, to bring attention to marginalized communities both in Israel and throughout the Middle East. Born in Tel Aviv, Yaron splits her time between her native city and New York.