November 19th, 2002, at 6:30 PM
The 60th anniversary of the assassination of Bruno Schulz
The Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, NYC 10011
Program information: 212-294-8314
Reservations: 917-606-8200
The launching of two books, the screening of two films, a display of photographs, a panel discussion including Henryk Grynberg and Lawrence Weschler, and readings from the author’s works by Elzbieta Czyzewska, will honor this small-town teacher who produced with a pencil both beautiful drawings and beautiful prose - a major figure in Polish literature whose output, cut short by the Holocaust, might be described as a kind of melding of Kafka and Chagall. “Bruno Schulz was one of the great writers…[his] verbal art strikes us – stuns, even – with its overload of beauty.” -- John Updike