Book Talk - Ben Hecht: Iconoclastic Writer and Militant Zionist

September 18, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Mānoa Campus, Hamilton Library - Room 306

Author Julien Gorbach, Associate Professor of Journalism, School of Information and Communication, UH Mānoa

Dr. Gorbach will discuss the life, work and current relevance of Ben Hecht, the legendary “Shakespeare of Hollywood,” a Chicago crime reporter and leading Hollywood screenwriter who played a critical role in history by shattering the American media silence about the Nazi’s Final Solution to the Jewish Question. Hecht’s calls to save “the soul of man” is the focus of his recently published biography, The Notorious Ben Hecht: Iconoclastic Writer and Militant Zionist (Purdue University Press, 2019).


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In person or via Zoom. Register in advance to attend in person or via Zoom

Event Sponsor
Library Services, Mānoa Campus

More Information
Clement Guthro, 808-956-7205, guthroc@hawaii.edu, https://manoa.hawaii.edu/library/about/news-events/exhibits/americans-and-the-holocaust/

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