Facilitated by Jim Van Buskirk Please click here to register for this Jewish Community Library event. In his powerful book The Color of Water (1996), James McBride uncovers his mother’s Jewish past and begins to understand his own racial complexities. Dani Shapiro’s memoir Inheritance (2019) chronicles her discovery that the man who raised her…...

Please click here to register for this Jewish Community Library event. The 2015 Spanish law granting nationality to the descendants of Jews expelled in 1492 is the latest example of a widespread phenomenon in contemporary Spain, the “re-discovery” of its Jewish heritage. This talk examines the implications of reclaiming the…...

Please click here to register for this Jewish Community Library event. In this new novel, rooted in the Book of Esther, three characters’ stories in different time periods overlap and ultimately collide. Lily is a young wife and mother in contemporary Brooklyn, and Vee is the wife of an ambitious…...

Presented by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Please click here to register for this Jewish Community Library event. Drawing from one of the largest collections of Jewish cookbooks in private hands, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett will talk about how she amassed more than 6000 cookbooks, of which more than 1000 are Jewish cookbooks, over the…...

Please click here to register for this Jewish Community Library event. Chana Kronfeld is the Bernie H. Williams Professor of Comparative, Hebrew and Yiddish Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in modernist poetry and translation studies. Her On the Margins of Modernism: Decentering Literary Dynamics won the MLA…...

To register for this event, click here. This program will feature automatically transcribed closed captioning. Facilitated by Marva Shalev Marom Marva Shalev Marom will lead an examination of the prejudices faced by Ethiopian Jews in Israel through this short story by Dalia Betolin-Sherman. Please click here to access the story…...