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 Maxwell Greenberg is an interdisciplinary scholar of race, religion and gender in the North American West and currently serves as the Postdoctoral Fellow of Jewish […]

Join Tom Wessels, terrestrial ecologist and Antioch University New England professor emeritus, for the first installment of the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts' Green Living Seminars on Capitalism and the Environment. Presentations will be broadcast on the Northern Berkshire Community Television Channel (NBCTC) throughout the following week and made available on YouTube. A new edition […]

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a host of Jewish outsiders came to play a critical role in modern art as dealers, collectors, critics, and, not least, as artists. This talk looks at the role of Jews in modern art by focusing on the stories of a few remarkable individuals and how and […]

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 Maxwell Greenberg is an interdisciplinary scholar of race, religion and gender in the North American West and currently serves as the Postdoctoral Fellow of Jewish […]

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 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. […]

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 Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Fulbright to Namibia, Orner directs the creative writing program at Dartmouth College.  On February 9th, author Peter Orner will speak on the […]

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 Maxwell Greenberg is an interdisciplinary scholar of race, religion and gender in the North American West and currently serves as the Postdoctoral Fellow of Jewish […]

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 Sally Van Doren’s lyrical work.  An award-winning poet, Van Doren seeks to create connections among words, images and poetic constructs. Her paintings, drawings, prints and […]

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 date, no one has ever produced a thorough account of the Academy’s birth and its awkward adolescence, and the few reports on those periods from […]

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 […]