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ACCLAIMED ATHORS TO SPEAK AT YORK ABOUT ANTI-SEMITISM, SPORT, CHILDREN, AND HATE TORONTO, February 7, 1997: Two talented and thought-provoking authors renowned for their writing on the Holocaust and Anti-Semitism will speak at this year's Leonard Wolinsky Lectures on Sunday, Feb. 9 and Monday, Feb. 10. George Eisen, a professor of kinesiology and the director of the Institute for Regional and International Studies at California State Polytechnic University, is the first guest speaker. He has had a distinguished career as an athlete, scholar, and humanist. Eisen is a former Fulbright Scholar, and his book, Children and Play in the Holocaust has been acclaimed as Outstanding Book of the Year by the American Library Association. Eisen will deliver two lectures on Sunday, Feb. 9 in Founders College Study Hall at York:
Anne Michaels is a Toronto-based writer who has often chosen the Holocaust and Holocaust survivors as her subjects. She is the author of two acclaimed collections of poetry: The Weight of Oranges (1985) and The Miner's Pond (1991), and is best known for her acclaimed best-selling novel, Fugitive Pieces (1996). Michaels will speak on Monday, February 10 in the Vanier College Study Hall on:
The Leonard Wolinsky Lectures are made possible by an endowment from the Wolinsky Foundation in honour of the late Leonard Wolinsky. Wolinsky was a Toronto industrialist and philanthropist who established his foundation to promote Jewish and non-Jewish causes. The lectures are free and open to the public. York University is located at 4700 Keele St. (Keele St. and Steeles Ave.) in North York.
For more information, contact:
Professor Joseph Levy
Mary Ann Horgan
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