Facilitated by Jim Van Buskirk Please click here to register for this Jewish Community Library event. Introducing excerpts from several provocative books, this lively community conversation will explore the impact of our own family secrets. In his powerful book The Color of Water (1996), James McBride uncovers his mother’s Jewish…...

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…...

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…...

Facilitated by Marva Shalev Marom Please click here to register for this Jewish Community Library event. 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 online. Marva Shalev Marom…...