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The title evokes both the \u201cflight of the story\u201d and a bird\u2019s-eye view \u2013 the possibility of seeing the familiar from a different angle.<\/p>\n<p>Over two evenings, leading Israeli actors will read selected works by European writers in Hebrew. The literary readings will be accompanied by conversations, panels, short film screenings, music and creative workshops.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>20\u201321 October 2026 | From 19:00 (door opens at 18:30)<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Liebling Haus, 29 Idelson St., Tel Aviv<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Free admission<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, 20 October<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 5 []\">The evening will feature <strong>excerpts from works originally written in Italian, Lithuanian, Romanian and Spanish<\/strong>, presented in Hebrew by actors <strong>Alma Dishy and Alon Friedman<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The programme will also include a panel discussion on translation, with <strong>Tehila Hakimi, Rita Kogan and Oded Wolkstein<\/strong>, exploring the challenges and possibilities of translating into and from European languages.<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">The event will be complemented by<strong> short films<\/strong> by young Israeli filmmakers: <em>Pisces<\/em> by Lee Dor, <em>Good Question<\/em> by Yair Gottfreid, and <em>The Things We Do for Love and a Foreign Passport<\/em> by Ayal Sgerski, alongside a <strong>musical performance by Soul Kaktus.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, 21 October<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">The evening will feature <strong>excerpts from literary works originally written in Polish, German, Czech, Lithuanian, and Portuguese<\/strong>, presented in Hebrew by actors <strong>Ofir Zweigenbom and Yuval Segal<\/strong>. The Polish contribution will feature <strong>Dorota Mas\u0142owska<\/strong>, one of the leading voices in contemporary Polish literature, with an excerpt from her short story <em>\u201cHousewarming Party,\u201d<\/em> translated into Hebrew by David Shafranek from the collection <em>Magic Wound<\/em> (2024).<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">The readings will be followed by a conversation between <strong>Shiri Lev-Ari and renowned Israeli author Yishai Sarid<\/strong>, whose books have been translated into numerous languages. The programme will also feature <strong>short films<\/strong>, a musical performance by <strong>Salome (Shlomi Salome Shapira)<\/strong>, and a late-night illustration workshop led by <strong>Gaia Luz<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Polish contribution will focus on <strong>Dorota Mas\u0142owska<\/strong>, one of the leading voices in contemporary Polish literature. Mas\u0142owska burst onto the literary scene at the age of 19 with her debut novel <em>Polish-Russian War under the White-Red Flag<\/em>, and in 2006 received the Nike Literary Award for her novel <em>The Queen\u2019s Peacock<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Her writing combines innovative language, slang, popular culture, absurdity and black humour with sharp observations on identity, society and contemporary culture.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the event, audiences will hear <strong>\u201cHousewarming Party\u201d<\/strong>, translated into Hebrew by David Shafranek, from the short-story collection <em>Magic Wound<\/em> (2024). 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Mas\u0142owska burst onto the literary scene at the age of 19 with her debut novel Polish-Russian War under the White-Red Flag, and in 2006 received the Nike Literary Award for her novel The Queen\u2019s Peacock.\r\nHer writing combines innovative language, slang, popular culture, absurdity and black humour with sharp observations on identity, society and contemporary culture.\r\nAs part of the event, audiences will hear \u201cHousewarming Party\u201d, translated into Hebrew by David Shafranek, from the short-story collection Magic Wound (2024). The story presents, with irony and grotesque humour, a world in which success, status and outward appearance become substitutes for authentic relationships and a sense of belonging \u2013 themes that resonate strongly with the event\u2019s focus.\r\nThe story by Mas\u0142owska is also a first glimpse of a joint project by the Polish Institute in Tel Aviv and Ahuzat Bayit \u2013 an anthology of short stories by 12 contemporary Polish women writers, to be published in March 2027.\r\nThe anthology will feature eight translators, graduates of the Polish Institute\u2019s translation workshops led by Miriam Borenstein, alongside prominent women writers from different generations, many of whose works will appear in Hebrew for the first time.\r\nThe reading of \u201cHousewarming Party\u201d at the European Night of Literature offers a first look at the project and an opportunity to discover one of the distinctive voices of contemporary Polish literature.","offers":{"@type":"Offer"}},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/telaviv\/en\/2026\/10\/02\/the-flight-of-the-story-european-night-of-literature\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/telaviv\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/Untitled-design-5.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/telaviv\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/Untitled-design-5.png","width":3780,"height":1890},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/telaviv\/en\/2026\/10\/02\/the-flight-of-the-story-european-night-of-literature\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/telaviv\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Flight of the Story: European Night of Literature"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/telaviv\/#website","url":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/telaviv\/","name":"Instytut Polski w Tel Avivie","description":"Instytuty Polskie","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/telaviv\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/telaviv\/#\/schema\/person\/d79284795161befe1ce8f409ff42adba","name":"krizevskia","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/telaviv\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0fa8cdb3fcf70a7c332a2c2502375f3c0de48d7952f60a8e5d14f300c5b8edf6?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0fa8cdb3fcf70a7c332a2c2502375f3c0de48d7952f60a8e5d14f300c5b8edf6?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"krizevskia"},"url":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/telaviv\/author\/krizevskia\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/telaviv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/telaviv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/telaviv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/telaviv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/telaviv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8448"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/telaviv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8518,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/telaviv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8448\/revisions\/8518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/telaviv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/telaviv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/telaviv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/telaviv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}