Events

I Seek A Kind Person is a gripping family memoir of grief, courage, and hope that tells the hidden stories of children who escaped the Holocaust, building connections across generations and continents. In 1938, Jewish families are scrambling to flee Vienna. Desperate, they take out advertisements offering their children into the safe keeping of readers […]

Americans have profoundly different ideas about what is real, ideas that sometimes verge on the irreconcilable. These notions depend on walls of the mind: stubborn boundaries that work to enforce particular points of view, as if each of us was stranded on some other island of idiosyncratic thought. Such divides may seem fleeting and intangible, […]

The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City offers a new look at over a century of New York’s history of Yiddish popular culture. Henry H. Sapoznik – a Peabody Award-winning co-producer of NPR’s Yiddish Radio Project – tells the story in over a baker’s dozen chapters on theater, music, architecture, crime, Black Americans […]

With wit and compassion, author Kevin Moffett delivers a bracingly intimate account of fatherhood, and discovery, and the experiences of two men far from home.

The field of contemporary Holocaust studies is increasingly international in perspective. These approaches do not detach themselves from European history; rather, they incorporate perspectives and voices not always considered in more traditional Holocaust studies. The new book Global Approaches to the Holocaust asks: What happens when scholars shift their focus from an exclusively European perspective […]

Two insiders explain why the Israeli–Palestinian peace process failed, and anticipate what lies ahead.

This lecture from artist and writer Richard McBee will explore of the work of eleven contemporary Jewish artists.

Book reading and signing by Andrew Klavan, author of After That, the Dark.

Dr. Camilla Townsend discusses the book On the Turtle’s Back: Stories the Lenape Told Their Grandchildren she co-authored with Nicky Kay Michael. The Lenape tribe, also known as the Delaware Nation, inhabited the region now comprising eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and parts of New York, Connecticut, and Maryland for centuries. However, America’s independence from […]

Book reading and signing by Alissa Lee, author of With Friends Like These.

Author Cynthia Zarin presents her novel Estate, in conversation with Jonathan Galassi.

Thea Riofrancos presents Extraction, an in-depth investigation into the growing industry of green technologies and the environmental, social, and political consequences of the mining it requires. In conversation with David Wallace-Wells

Day-long event featuring talks, panels, and author signings, and themes of Jewish heritage, culture, and history, modern life and literature.