Tuesday, April 1

5:30 PM Tasty Food
6:00 PM Reading 

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
Residents' Dining Hall
800 S. Halsted Street

This event is FREE.

Reservations are not necessary but highly recommended- 312.413.5353

 

Please join the Hull-House Museum for a book release party for The End of the Jews,an ambitious and affecting family drama and a sweeping tour of race, religion, art and identity in 20th century America.  The End of the Jews features grandfather-and-grandson graffiti bombing missions, a Czech girl passing for black in America, relatives betraying each other through novels, stoned Bar Mitzvah DJs forcing people to dance the hora to Eric B & Rakim's microphone fiend, swaggering Jewish geniuses remaking postwar American culture, and much more.

Mansbach's previous novel is the critically-acclaimed bestseller Angry Black White Boy, or The Miscegenation of Macon Detornay (Crown, 2005), a satire about race, whiteness and hip hop that is currently taught at more than forty universities across the country. A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2005, Angry Black White Boy is currently in development as a feature film.

The lives of a young Jewish man in the 1930s and a young Czech woman in the 1980s echo across generations in Mansbach's (Angry Black White Boy) continuing investigations into ethnic identity. Believably eccentric characters and an inventive cross-generational plot make this novel of immigration's vicissitudes a delight. 

 

Mansbach is the founding editor of the pioneering '90s hip hop journal Elementary, and a former Artistic Consultant to Columbia University's Center for Jazz Studies. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, The New York Times, Vibe, JazzTimes, Wax Poetics, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Guilt & Pleasure, Poets & Writers, Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip Hop (Basic Civitas, 2007), The Best Music Writing (Da Capo, 2004), and elsewhere. He also writes a weekly political column for NewsOne.com.

A dynamic public speaker whose lectures combine elements of spoken-word, hip hop, comedy, and traditional scholarship to address the complexities of identity, hip hop, history, literature, and popular culture, Mansbach has spoken on college campuses across the country. He teaches writing at the San Francisco Art Institute.

Paid parking is available across the street.