Romain Gary 2024 — Association of Jews of Vilna and vicinity in Israel

“The only place where Romain Gary was Jewish was in his literature.”
Dr. Maya Gaz, whose doctoral dissertation focuses on the writer born in Vilnius — author of The Life Before Us, Promise at Dawn, Pseudo, The Kites, The King Solomon’s Anxiety, and more — will give a fascinating evening lecture at Beit Vilna in Tel Aviv about the complex and multifaceted figure of Romain Gary / Émile Ajar.