"Hunting in America" by Tehila Hakimi

In this book talk Tehila Hakimi will introduce her new novel Hunting in America (Penguin, 2025), an award-winning, thrillingly subversive novel about an Israeli woman who moves to America, takes up hunting, and is drawn into a world of predator, prey, and dark attraction

In her work Hakimi explores the links between capitalism, workplace power dynamics, and femininity in the modern era. By examining the impacts of migration, weaponry, and war, she reveals how these themes intersect with the cultural narratives of both American and Israeli cultures.

Tehila Hakimi is a Jewish Book Council Award–winning fiction writer and poet. She was a participant in the 2018 Fulbright International Writing Program Fellowship at the University of Iowa, and is a recipient of the 2015 Bernstein Prize for Literature. Hakimi’s short prose and poems have been published in translation in Asymptote, World Literature Today, and The Poetry Review, among others. She was also awarded Israel’s 2019 National Library’s Pardes Scholarship for writers and the 2018 Levi Eshkol Prize for Hebrew Writers.

This talk is a part of the Tarbut: Hebrew Arts and Culture Lecture Series

Sponsored by Israel Studies | Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies

Host or Publisher Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies