Drop-In Book Discussion: The Postcard by Anne Berest, Facilitated by Jim Van BuskirkIn-PersonExpired
Join us at this free and lively in-person discussion at the Jewish Community Library. The Library is located at 1835 Ellis Street in San Francisco, with free garage parking on Pierce between Ellis and Eddy. To register, click here. You may borrow a copy of The Postcard at no charge through the Library’s Book Club […] ...
We Are Not Strangers: A Graphic Novel, with Josh TuiningaVirtualExpired
Click here to register for this free virtual event, co-presented by the Cartoon Art Museum. When Marco Calvo arrives at the synagogue to attend his grandfather’s funeral, he is caught off guard by something unexpected. Among his close family and friends there are some people he doesn’t recognize at all. Several Japanese American families have arrived, […] ...
Jewish Life in Medieval Spain: A Religious Minority during the Best and Worst of TimesVirtualExpired
Presented by Jonathan Ray To register for this free virtual event, click here. The great cultural legacy of Spanish Jews has long symbolized a “Golden Age” of Judaism and of interfaith relations. Yet, the Jewish experience in medieval Spain was actually quite complex. The intellectual achievements and general prosperity of Spanish Jews was marred by […] ...
A Ukrainian Chapter: A Jewish Aid Worker’s Memoir of Sorrow (Podolia, 1918-20)VirtualExpired
Presented by Michael Nutkiewicz To register for this free virtual event, co-presented by New Lehrhaus, click here. Eli Gumener’s 1921 Yiddish memoir, A Ukrainian Chapter: Two Years in Podolia (A Kapitl Ukraine. Tsvey Yor in Podolye), is set in a region in southwest Ukraine. The memoir depicts the fate of Jews caught in the middle of the […] ...
Jewish Sunday Schools: Teaching Religion in Nineteenth Century AmericaVirtualExpired
Presented by Laura Yares To register for this free virtual event, click here. Jewish Sunday Schools describes how nineteenth-century Jewish women laid the foundations of Jewish education in America. The Jewish Sunday school movement began with one school in Philadelphia in 1838 and quickly evolved into an entire system that educated vast numbers of Jewish […] ...
The Golem of Brooklyn, with Adam MansbachIn-PersonExpired
Join us at this free in-person event at the Jewish Community Library, co-presented by Reboot. The Library is located at 1835 Ellis Street in San Francisco, with free garage parking on Pierce between Ellis and Eddy. To register, click here. Books will be available for purchase and signing. Read about The Golem of Brooklyn in […] ...
Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair with Rosa LowingerVirtualExpired
Click here to register for this free virtual event, co-presented by Jewtina y Co. Dwell Time is an illuminating debut memoir by one of the few prominent Latinas in the field of art and architectural conservation; a moving portrait of a Cuban Jewish family’s intergenerational trauma; and a story about repair and healing that will forever […] ...
Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My FamilyVirtualExpired
Presented by Daniel Finkelstein Click here to register for this free virtual event co-presented by the JFCS Holocaust Center. Click here to order Two Roads Home from Afikomen Judaica. In Two Roads Home (Knopf, 2023) British journalist Daniel Finkelstein tells the extraordinary story of the years before his mother met his father—years of war and trials […] ...
Sculpting a Life: Chana Orloff between Paris and Tel Aviv, with Paula BirnbaumIn-PersonExpired
Join us at this free in-person event at the Jewish Community Library, co-presented by Congregation Sherith Israel. The Library is located at 1835 Ellis Street in San Francisco, with free garage parking on Pierce between Ellis and Eddy. To register, click here. Books will be available for purchase and signing. Sculpting a Life is the first book-length […] ...
By Accident: A Memoir of Letting Go, with Joanne GreeneVirtualExpired
Click here to register for this free virtual event. Joanne Greene grew up in Boston during the 1960s and ’70s, a turning point for women in the United States. Doors were opening wider, and Joanne walked through as many as she could. As a young woman, she dove headfirst into San Francisco radio and television, […] ...
The Bund: A Graphic History of Jewish Labour ResistanceVirtualExpired
Presented by Sharon Rudahl, Michael Kluckner, and Paul Buhle Click here to register for this free virtual event, co-sponsored by the Workers Circle / Arbeter Ring of Northern California and co-presented by the Cartoon Art Museum and KlezCalifornia. Told in an engaging graphic novel format, The Bund (Between the Lines, 2023) explains the oppressive origins of Jewish […] ...
Amos Oz: Writer, Activist, Icon, with Robert AlterIn-PersonExpired
Join us at this free in-person event with free garage parking at 1227 Pierce Street. To register, click here. Books will be available for purchase and signing. Amos Oz (1939–2018) was one of Israel’s most prolific and prominent writers, as well as a regular contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was the author […] ...
Places We Left Behind, with Jennifer Lang in conversation with Marc DollingerIn-PersonExpired
Join Jennifer Lang, author of Places We Left Behind: a memoir-in-miniature, and Marc Dollinger to discuss her new book about cross-cultural marriage, interdenominational relationships, making aliyah, and identity. Click here to register for this free in-person event, with free garage parking at 1227 Pierce Street. Books will be available for purchase and signing. About the […] ...
Ilan Vitemberg Memorial Program with Yair Qedar, Maya Arad, and Arthur SlepianIn-PersonExpired
Join us at this free in-person event at the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto co-presented by New Lehrhaus, the Oshman Family JCC, Congregation Beth Am, the Jewish Community Library, A Wider Bridge, and the East Bay International Film Festival. For details and registration links, click here. This event is held in memory of Ilan […] ...
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