Discover how the bountiful American West is a significant geography for understanding the modern Jewish American experience. Cost for the four meetings: $160 Maxwell Greenberg Professor of Jewish American Studies […]

Professor of Art History and author of Sculpting a Life, the first book -length biography of the artist Chana Orloff, Paula Birnbaum explores the fiercely determined and ambitious woman who […]

Peter Orner, a three-time recipient of the Pushcart Prize, is the author of six books, including Esther Stories, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. The recipient of the Rome Prize, a […]

Discover how the bountiful American West is a significant geography for understanding the modern Jewish American experience. Cost for the four meetings: $160 Maxwell Greenberg Professor of Jewish American Studies […]

At 4:30pm There will be a reading during the event by Sally Van Doren and guest writer Roxana Robinson. Intention. Improvisation. Accident. All three of these are guiding influences in […]

For all the near-fanatic attention brought each year to the Academy Awards, the organization that dispenses those awards—the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—has yet to be understood. To […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Join author Sue Kahn, author of Canine Pioneer: The Extraordinary Life of Rudolphina Menzel, for a conversation at the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem. Presenters will speak in Hebrew; respondent Sue Kahn […]

The Emerson Prison Initiative is hosting a one-day conference, “Innovation in Access and Equity for Incarcerated People in Massachusetts,” featuring speakers, panels, and a documentary screening centered around the value […]

Join speaker and philanthropist Dan Pallotta at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts for the premiere of the documentary Uncharitable (Dir. Stephen Gyllenhaal), based on his bestselling book Uncharitable: How Restraints on […]