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Paula Birnbaum in Conversation at Boston Athenaeum

Boston Athenaeum 10 1/2 Beacon St, Boston, United States

Join Paula J. Birnbaum, author of Sculpting a Life: Chana Orloff Between Paris and Tel Aviv, in conversation with Bill Kuhn at the Boston Athenaeum.

Author Susan Kahn with the Jewish Women’s Archive

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Join Susan Kahn, author of Canine Pioneer: The Extraordinary Life of Rudolphina Menzel for a virtual reading with the Jewish Women's Archive. Canine Pioneer tells the story of Rudolphina Menzel, a Viennese-born Jewish scientist whose pioneering research on canine psychology, development, and behavior shaped the ways dogs came to be trained and understood. She originated […]

Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative & Brandeis University Press Present: Unlocking Learning: International Perspectives on Education in Prison

Rapaporte Treasure Hall, Brandeis Library 415 South St, Waltham, MA, United States

Click Here to Join the Webinar Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative & Brandeis University Press Present: Unlocking Learning: International Perspectives on Education in Prison Join the Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative & Brandeis University Press for a conversation with Justin McDevitt and Mneesha Gellman, editors of Unlocking Learning: International Perspectives on Education in Prison, the latest book […]

Book Release Party: Birdwatching in Maine

Maine Beer Company 525 US Route 1, Freeport, Maine

Join Freeport Wild Bird Supply and Maine Beer Company to celebrate the release of the 2nd Edition of Birdwatching in Maine.​   With over 470 species of birds recorded, Maine offers an abundance of birding opportunities for people of all levels of interest and experience, from those looking beyond their backyards for the first time […]

“The Second Conversation” Book Launch

Brandeis University

The Second Conversation: Interpretive Authority in the Bible Classroom In person at Brandeis University (3:30-5:00 pm ET) and via Zoom (3:30-4:15 pm ET) A discussion, reception, and book signing with Ziva Hassenfeld (Brandeis University), author of The Second Conversation: Interpretive Authority in the Bible Classroom. This book is part of the Mandel-Brandeis Series in Jewish […]

Yaëlle Azagury and Frances Malino at Brookline Booksmith

Brookline Booksmith 279 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA

In person at Brookline Booksmith! Celebrate the release of Mazaltob with translators Yaëlle Azagury and Frances Malino. Register for the event! RSVP to let us know you're coming! Depending on the volume of responses, an RSVP may be required for entrance to the event. You will also be alerted to important details about the program, […]

Mazaltob: Sephardi Women in Translation

Vilna Shul 18 Phillips St, Boston, MA

Join us for a book launch celebration and discussion featuring translators/editors Frances Malino and Dr. Yaëlle Azagury and moderated by Jonathan Decter. Mazaltob, by Blanche Bendahan, is a fascinating portrait of a young Moroccan Sephardi woman as she navigates the ever-shifting ground between tradition and modernity, East and West, self and other, obligation and desire. Stylistically […]

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The Soiling of Old Glory: The Story of a Photograph That Shocked America

Suffolk University Commons 120 Tremont St, Boston, MA

  Boston, April 5, 1976. As the city simmered with racial tension over forced school busing, newsman Forman photographed a white protester outside City Hall assaulting the Black attorney Landsmarck with the American flag. The photograph shocked Boston and made front pages across the U.S. and the world and won a Pulitzer Prize. Masur has […]

Virtual Book Talk: The Weavers of Trautenau, Janine Holc in conversation with Anna Hájková

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Beginning in late 1940, over three thousand Jewish girls and young women were forced from their family homes in Sosnowiec, Poland, and its surrounding towns to worksites in the Sudetenland, in today’s Czech Republic. Believing that they were helping their families to survive, these young people were thrust into a world where they laboured at […]

Spring Songbirds Workshop with Derek Lovitch

Evergreen Cemetery Stevens Ave, Portland, Maine

Spring Songbirds Workshop Portland, 7–11 a.m. Instructor Bio Derek Lovitch has made a career out of his lifelong passion for birds. After graduating with a degree in environmental policy from Rutgers University, he worked in avian research and education projects in nine states, from New Jersey to Hawaii, Florida to Michigan. He also spent three summers […]

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Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn at Next Stage Arts

Next Stage Arts 15 Kimball Hill, Putney, Vermont

The Landmark Trust USA (LTUSA) invites the community to learn more about one of our region’s most distinctive architectural typologies, one that many northern New Englanders call home: the connected […]

Birdwatching in Maine at the Jay-Niles Memorial Library

Jay-Niles Memorial Library 983 Main St, Jay, Maine

Join Derek J. Lovitch, editor of Birdwatching in Maine: The Complete Site Guide, in person July 11th at the Jay-Niles Memorial Library.   About the Book With over 470 species […]

Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn at Wescustogo Hall

Wescustogo Hall and Community Center 120 Memorial Highway, North Yarmouth, Maine

Prof. Thomas Hubka, author of Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England, will present a lively, richly illustrated presentation on Thursday, May 16. […]