Instruments of Power: A woman’s journey through work, love, body, and hunting
Hosted By: The New York Jewish Week, UJA-Federation of New York
Join the New York Jewish Week in partnership with UJA-Federation New York for the next event in our Folio literary series. Author Tehila Hakimi will discuss her thought provoking debut Hunting in America with Lisa Keys of the New York Jewish Week. Hunting in America is an award-winning, thrillingly subversive novel about an Israeli woman who moves to America for work, takes up hunting, and is drawn into a world of predator, prey, and dark attraction.
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 the 2018 Levi Eshkol Memorial Prime Minister’s Prize for Hebrew Writers,. Hakimi’s short prose and poems have been published in translation in Asymptote, World Literature Today, and The Poetry Review, among others. Hunting in America received critical acclaim when published in Hebrew, was mentioned as Haaretz Best Book of 2023 and was longlisted for the 2023 Sapir prize.