Stories We Share: A Celebration of Jewish Voices is a series featuring authors, scholars, artists, and community partners in conversation with one another and with audiences. Each program invites exploration of culture, history, creativity, and lived experience through literature.
Storytelling has been central to Jewish identity for millennia, shaping sacred texts, preserving tradition, sustaining communities in diaspora, and passing culture forward through both written and oral forms. Through this initiative, Miami Book Fair is continuing to create space for Jewish voices to share stories that inspire cultural connection and intellectual discourse.
At its heart is a simple idea: Jewish stories are not one story. Our programming reflects Jewish experiences across generations, geographies, traditions, backgrounds, and perspectives, while creating opportunities for connection and understanding through books.
Alicia Jo Rabins is a writer, musician, performer, and feminist Torah teacher. The New York Times calls her voice “gorgeous”; the San Francisco Chronicle calls her writing “a poetry page-turner, both sexy and humble.” She is the author of the spiritual memoir When We’re Born We Forget Everything and four additional books, including the poetry collections Divinity School (winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize) and Fruit Geode (finalist for the National Poetry Series). As a songwriter, violinist and composer, Rabins tours internationally with Girls in Trouble, her indie-folk song cycle about women in Torah. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her family and too many houseplants.
Sponsored by The Eric and Stacey Mindich Fund for Jewish Stories