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Maya Arad

Wednesday, April 29 | 7 PM at the JCC

Maya Arad

7:00 PM at the Kaiserman JCC

Join us at the JCC for an engaging conversation about Happy New Years, as author Maya Arad explores the complexities of identity, community, and reinvention in the modern Jewish experience. Through thoughtful storytelling and sharp observation, Arad offers a window into lives lived between cultures—and the meaning we make along the way.

Location:
Kaiserman JCC
45 Haverford Rd, Penn Wynne, PA 19096

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About the Book

Happy New Years is a poignant and incisive novel by Maya Arad that explores identity, belonging, and the quiet fractures of contemporary life. Set largely within the Israeli expatriate community in the United States, the book follows characters navigating careers, relationships, parenthood, and cultural dislocation. Through moments both intimate and unsettling, Arad captures how people remake themselves across borders—and the emotional costs of starting over.

With sharp insight and psychological depth, Happy New Years examines themes of ambition, loneliness, aging, and the tension between personal desire and communal expectation. Arad’s nuanced storytelling reveals how private struggles reflect broader questions about home, language, and what it means to belong in a globalized world.

About the Author

Maya Arad is an acclaimed Israeli author and poet whose work spans novels, short stories, and poetry. She is known for her keen observations of Israeli society and for her literary explorations of life in the diaspora. Writing primarily in Hebrew, Arad’s work has been widely praised for its intellectual rigor, emotional subtlety, and social insight.

Arad has lived in the United States for many years, an experience that deeply informs her fiction. She is considered one of the leading voices in contemporary Hebrew literature, particularly on questions of identity, migration, and modern Jewish life.