Caste-ing Off Expectations – Fiction
In Renée Ahdieh’s Park Avenue: A Novel, Jia, the ambitious daughter of Korean bodega owners, is living her dream as a Manhattan lawyer. But when
Finding Family & Yourself – Fiction
In Lauren Grodstein‘s A Dog in Georgia: A Novel, Amy Webb was a chef. Then she became a wife, a stepmother, and an emergency contact,
Surviving The Survivor With Joel Z. Waldman & Karmela Waldman – Nonfiction
Karmela Waldman is an octogenarian psychotherapist and Holocaust survivor. Her son, Joel Z. Waldman, is a successful broadcast journalist. Mastering podcasting is one thing; figuring
Sisters, Secrets & Family Struggles – Fiction
Esther Chehebar’s Sisters of Fortune: A Novel is the story of three sisters in a Syrian Jewish family: a rebellious – and single – older
Contemporary Yiddish Lit: Discussing Chaim Grade’s Sons And Daughters – Fiction
Join Altie Karper, editorial director of Schocken Books/Penguin Random House for more than 20 years; Todd Portnowitz, senior editor at Alfred A. Knopf; and Rose
Cuban American Authors Traverse Sea & Sky – Fiction & Nonfiction
Three Cuban American authors celebrate the resilient hope of the journeying heart in their newest middle grade novels. In A Raft of Dreams, Jenisbel Acevedo
Stories Of Jewish Resistance, Tragedies & Triumphs – Nonfiction
Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Leslie Gelrubin Benitah‘s documentary The Last Ones of Auschwitz collects the stories of the last remaining
IN THE HOLOCAUST’S SHADOW, IS THERE STILL LIGHT? – FICTION & NONFICTION
KEREN BLANKFELD’s Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story is a remarkable saga about Zippi Spitzer and David Wisnia, who fell in love in Auschwitz, were
GOOD HUMOR: THREE LIVES – NONFICTION
SHALOM AUSLANDER was raised in a dysfunctional family in the Orthodox Jewish community of Monsey, New York: the son of an alcoholic father, guilt-wielding mother,
DYNASTIC INFLUENCES
JOSEPH SASSOON’s The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire is a saga of the making – and undoing – of
HARD-WON HOLINESS: A READING & CONVERSATION WITH JESSICA JACOBS & AVA NATHANIEL WINTER
Join us for a discussion on the tender and difficult poetry found between religious traditions, queer desire, Jewish transfemininity, cultural histories, and the ethical knots
THE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS CELEBRATES 90 YEARS OF POETRY
Join the Academy of American Poets for a 90th anniversary reading and conversation featuring JOY CASTRO and CARLIE HOFFMAN, highlighting questions of national identity, migration,