Literary Modiin - July 2026 Author Event
Sun, Jul 12
|Zoom book event
Join Literary Modiin for our July event, featuring Yishay Ishi Ron with Yardenne Greenspan (THE GIRL WHO RODE THE WHITE LION), Talya Jankovits (THE VERY UNREMARKABLE LIFE OF MRS. ETTY BLOOM) and Meg Richman (FREYA THE DEER) .
Time & Location
Jul 12, 2026, 8:00 PM GMT+3
Zoom book event
About the Event
About the authors: Yishay Ishi Ron is an Israeli author and the son of a Holocaust survivor. His acclaimed novel Dog was longlisted for the Sapir Prize and is currently being adapted into a feature film. Dog won the 2025 National Jewish Book Award by the Jewish Book Council for Book Club and Hebrew Fiction in Translation. The Girl Who Rode the White Lion is his second novel published in English.
Yardenne Greenspan is a writer and Hebrew translator born in Tel Aviv. Her work has been featured in Tablet, Jewish Book Council, Literary Hub, Haaretz, Words Without Borders, and as a regular column in Ploughshares. Her translations have been published by Restless Books, Soncata Press, St. Martin’s Press, Akashic, New Vessel Press, Amazon Crossing, and Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Her translation of The Memory Monster by Yishai Sarid was a 2020 New York Times Notable Book and her translation of…