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  • In the Beginning Were Words: The Greatest Jewish Books
    21-Feb-2012 - 8:15 pm
    92nd Street Y - New York,NY
    If there’s one pursuit Jews have undertaken since their dawn as a nation, it is the writing, compiling, editing and discussing of books.

    The Role of the Critic
    29-Feb-2012 - 7pm
    Museum of Jewish Heritage - New York,NY
    Adam Kirsch, author, Why Trilling Matters, and Judith Shulevitz, author, The Sabbath World, discuss Trilling's legacy and the evolving place of the critic in today’s intellectual world.

    Jewish Dystopian Authors Ben Marcus and Joshua Cohen
    04-Mar-2012 - 2:30PM
    Museum of Jewish Heritag - New York,New York
    Jewish Dystopian Authors Ben Marcus and Joshua Cohen to Discuss Everything from the Hunger Games to the Holocaust

    "Jewish Tales from Wales" A Film Festival (Sleep Furiously) with special guest, author Nathan Abrams
    11-Mar-2012 - 2:30PM
    Museum of Jewish Heritage - New York,NY
    "Sleep Furiously" is the second film of a curated 3-film festival celebrating extraordinary parallels in worship, language, community ties and humor between the Welsh and Jewish communities in the great South Wales Valleys. Author Nathan Abrams will present the event and speak about his new book The New Jew in Film.

    "Jewish Tales from Wales" A Film Festival (Solomon and Gaenor) with special guest, author Nathan Abrams
    11-Mar-2012 - 11AM
    Museum of Jewish Heritage - New York,NY
    "Solomon and Gaenor" is the first film of a curated 3-film festival celebrating extraordinary parallels in worship, language, community ties and humor between the Welsh and Jewish communities in the great South Wales Valleys. Author Nathan Abrams will present the event and speak about his new book The New Jew in Film.

    Mitchell Bard
    12-Mar-2012 - 7:30
    B'nai Torah - Boca Raton,Fl
    The Arab Lobby... The Invisible Alliance that Undermines America's Interests in the Middle East

    "Jewish Tales from Wales" A Film Festival (A Very Annie Mary) with special guest, author Nathan Abrams
    14-Mar-2012 - 7:00PM
    Museum of Jewish Heritage - New York,NY
    "A Very Annie Mary" is the third film of a curated 3-film festival celebrating extraordinary parallels in worship, language, community ties and humor between the Welsh and Jewish communities in the great South Wales Valleys. Author Nathan Abrams will present the event and speak about his new book The New Jew in Film.

    The Art of Short Fiction
    23-Mar-2012 - 4:00 p.m.
    Barnes & Noble - Charlottesville,VA
    Short-story writers, including Network author Erika Dreifus, address their art and craft.

    Twitter Book Club: Nathan Englander (What We Talk About...)
    27-Mar-2012 - 12:30PM-1:15PM (EST)
    Online - @jewishbook,Follow Hashtag
    These eight new stories from the celebrated novelist and short-story writer Nathan Englander display a gifted young author grappling with the great questions of modern life, with a command of language and the imagination that place Englander at the very forefront of contemporary American fiction.

    Poetic Justice: Celebrating Emma Lazarus
    11-Apr-2012 - 7pm
    Museum of Jewish Heritage - New York,NY
    In recognition of National Poetry Month, contemporary poets reflect on the life and work of Emma Lazarus with poems about immigration and exodus.

    Discussion with Author Erika Dreifus
    15-Apr-2012 - 3:30 p.m.
    City Congregation for Humanistic Judaism - New York,NY
    Erika Dreifus, author of the short-story collection QUIET AMERICANS, will speak on "MY German-Jewish Grandparents and Third-Generation Preoccupations: History, Healing, and Happily Ever After?"

    Emma Lazarus’ Double Life
    29-Apr-2012 - 2:30 P.M.
    Museum of Jewish Heritage - New York,NY
    With biographer Esther Schor Emma Lazarus lived as an American and a Jew in a way no one before her had. She was a Jewish-American writer before the category even existed. In this fascinating discussion, Schor will bring a vital, complicated woman to life.

    Authors Out Loud: Etgar Keret and Nathan Englander
    01-May-2012 - 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
    Washington DC JCC - Washington,D.C.
    Writers, friends and translators of each other’s work, Nathan Englander and Etgar Keret will share stories about translation, life, and everything in between.

  • Mitchell Bard
    12-Mar-2012 - 7:30
    B'nai Torah - Boca Raton,Fl
    The Arab Lobby... The Invisible Alliance that Undermines America's Interests in the Middle East

  • Twitter Book Club: Nathan Englander (What We Talk About...)
    27-Mar-2012 - 12:30PM-1:15PM (EST)
    Online - @jewishbook,Follow Hashtag
    These eight new stories from the celebrated novelist and short-story writer Nathan Englander display a gifted young author grappling with the great questions of modern life, with a command of language and the imagination that place Englander at the very forefront of contemporary American fiction.

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