Part of the exhibition "Sex: Jewish Positions" (in German)

For the exhibition Sex: Jewish Positions, the JMB book club first looked at the Song of Songs. It now turns to two books that revolutionized perspectives on sex – and not just Jewish ones: Sexual desire, psychoanalysis and grappling with tradition are at the heart of both Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth (1969) and Fear of Flying by Erica Jong (1973).

Both were considered shocking and outrageous in their day, but what do they tell us now, 50 years later, about sexual obsession and liberation, about rule-breaking and conformity?

In conversation with author Dana von Suffrin, we rediscover the grand old man of American literature and the outspoken feminist.

“This book will make literary history.”

– Henry Miller on Fear of Flying

“The most outrageously funny book about sex yet written.”

– The Guardian on Portnoy’s Complaint

Read along!

(PROGRAM IN GERMAN)

Additional information

Meeting point: W.M. Blumenthal Academy, Library, Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 1, 10969 Berlin (opposite the museum)

Price info: Reserve Online Ticket

Price: €6.00

Reduced price: €3.00

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