# Event Details

- **Event Name**: "Your Story, My Story, and the True Story"
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 30 Oct, 2025 at 05:30 pm – Thu, 30 Oct, 2025 at 06:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Prof. Gorenberg investigates and how narratives frame the way history is written.About this EventJournalist, historian, and professor Gershom Gorenberg joins IIJS to explore how conflicting accounts shape our understanding of the past and present. In his lecture, “My Story, Your Story, the True Story,” Prof. Gorenberg investigates and how narratives frame the way history is written. This lecture will take place in-person at 617 Kent Hall on Thursday, October 30, at 5:30 p.m. ET. Gershom Gorenberg is an Israeli historian and journalist and the author, most recently, of War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East. Based on documents that remained classified for decades, War of Shadows solves the mystery of the World War II spy affair that nearly brought Rommel’s army and SS death squads to Cairo and Jerusalem. Gorenberg previously wrote three critically acclaimed books on Israel’s history and politics - The Unmaking of Israel, The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977, and The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount. He co-authored Shalom Friend, a biography of Yitzhak Rabin and winner of the National Jewish Book Award.Gorenberg is a contributing writer for The Atlantic. He has written for The New York Times, Washington Post, , The New York Review of Books, Foreign Policy, The New Republic and Prospect Magazine (UK) and in Hebrew for Haaretz and Maariv. In recent years he has spent spring semesters at Columbia as the Knapp Senior Research Scholar at IIJS and adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Journalism, teaching a workshop on writing history. He lives in Jerusalem.Supported by the generosity of the Kaye and Appel families.While all IIJS events are free and open to the public, we do encourage a suggested donation of $10.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/new-york/your-story-my-story-and-the-true-story/100001735775825219
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, workshops, nonprofit
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: New York
- **state**: NY
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University
- **lat**: 40.807211
- **long**: -73.96135879999997
- **full address**: Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University, 617 Kent Hall, New York, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is "Your Story, My Story, and the True Story" being held?
  - **A:** "Your Story, My Story, and the True Story" takes place on Thu, 30 Oct, 2025 at 05:30 pm to Thu, 30 Oct, 2025 at 06:30 pm at Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University, 617 Kent Hall, New York, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing "Your Story, My Story, and the True Story"?
  - **A:** "Your Story, My Story, and the True Story" is organized by The Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** "Your Story, My Story, and the True Story" is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in New York, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If "Your Story, My Story, and the True Story" sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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