Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival

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The Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival, hosted in Washington, DC, presents the year's best in Jewish works by both emerging and established writers from across the globe. An annual celebration of Jewish literature, the Festival features engaging author panels, readings, and talks for avid lovers of fiction, history, politics, humor, children’s stories, and much more. For more information, visit www.washingtondcjcc.org/litfest.

Sunday, October 17 | Opening Night
7:30 pm | Strangers in a Strange Land: The Lives of Jewish Immigrants
Sunday, October 17 | Children’s Event
10:30 am | Laurel Snyder, Baxter, The Pig Who Wanted to be Kosher

Monday, October 18
Noon | Michal Govrin, Hold on to the Sun
Library of Congress, Jefferson Building, Room LJ220

Monday, October 18
7:30 pm | Screening of Sayed Kashua: Forever Scared

Tuesday, October 19
7:30 pm | Ruth Franklin, A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction

Wednesday, October 20
7:30 pm | Miryam Kabakov, Keep Your Wives Away from Them: Orthodox Women, Unorthodox Desires

Thursday, October 21 | The Bernard Wexler Lecture on Jewish History
7:30 pm | Samuel Heilman, The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Friday, October 22 | The Helen Milton Covensky Fund
Noon | Judith Freidenberg, The Invention of the Jewish Gaucho
Embassy of Argentina , 1600 New Hampshire Avenue, NW

Sunday, October 24 | Books & Bagels
Noon | Joel Chasnoff, The 188th Crybaby Brigade: A Skinny Jewish Kid from Chicago Fights Hezbollah – A Memoir

Sunday, October 24
7:30 pm | Allegra Goodman, The Cookbook Collector: A Novel

Monday, October 25
7:30 pm | Jerry Muller, Capitalism and the Jews

Tuesday, October 26 | The Chaim Kempner Author Series
7:30 pm | Jessica Jiji, Sweet Dates in Basra

Wednesday, October 27 | Closing Night | The Gerald L. Bernstein Memorial Lecture
7:30 pm | Rebecca Goldstein, 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction


Tickets available September 15 at washingtondcjcc.org/litfest or at (202) 777-3251.
All events at the Washington DCJCC unless otherwise noted.
All festival images can be found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/41313114@N08/sets/72157624704556242