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 […]

To kick off our 25th anniversary celebration, we are planning a conference in coordination with Brandeis' Year of Climate Action (YOCA) and the launch of our director Sabine von Mering’s […]

In 1538, a partnership of Jewish silk makers in the city of Bologna published a book entitled Sefer Hasidim, a compendium of rituals, stories, and religious instruction that primarily originated […]

Join the German Department of Georgetown University and the Henrich Boell Foundation for an event celebrating the launch of Beginning to End the Climate Crisis, by Luisa Neubauer and Alex Repenning […]

The Public Diplomacy Department of the German Embassy and the Heinrich Böll Stiftung cordially invite you to a Book Discussion: Beginning to End the Climate Crisis: A History of Our Future […]

Join speaker and philanthropist Dan Pallotta for the Boston premiere of the documentary Uncharitable (Dir. Stephen Gyllenhaal), based on his bestselling book Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential. Uncharitable the movie will change […]

We are excited to host Alexander Reppening for his US book tour. His latest book Beginning to End the Climate Crisis: A History of Our Future shares personal accounts of […]