Join photographer and author Ellen Warner for a reading and signing for her book The Second Half: Forty Women Reveal Life After Fifty at the Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach, FL. Tickets $20 - No charge for Four Arts members About the Book A frank, honest, and insightful look into the lives of women […]

Baron Wormser, whose essays have appeared in Best American Essays, checks in with love and betrayal, hope and despair in his eleventh poetry collection, The History Hotel.  On the other hand, The Road Washes Out in Spring, touches on feelings of community, isolation, nature, civilization, and poetry. In Baron Wormser's eleventh poetry collection, The History Hotel, the historical circumstances […]

Join us for an introduction to the business of book publishing, from how books are acquired, edited, designed, and produced, to how they are marketed, sold, and distributed. Covering both trade and academic books, Brandeis University Press presents what book publishers do and what potential authors need to know beyond the proposal. This seminar will […]

In “Sculpting a Life,” the first book-length biography of sculptor Chana Orloff (1888-1968), author Paula Birnbaum tells the story of a fiercely determined and ambitious woman who fled antisemitism in Ukraine, emigrated to Palestine with her family, then travelled to Paris to work in haute couture before becoming an internationally recognized artist. This event is […]

Join in conversation facilitated by Rabbi Elyse Frishman with Lilith's Susan Weidman Schneider, Editor in Chief, and Yona Zeldis McDonough, Fiction Editor, of their groundbreaking Jewish feminist short story collection, Frankly Feminist. Short story collections focusing on Jewish writers have—no surprise—typically given women authors short shrift. This new volume represents the best Jewish feminist fiction published […]

In 1965, the year after the ouster of Nikita Khrushchev, the first collection of Franz Kafka’s writings came out in the Soviet Union. What did it mean to read Kafka in that moment? In that society? Frequently subject to quotas and varying degrees of discrimination, Soviet Jews still participated fully within the larger society and […]