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 in medieval Franco-Germany. How these men, of Italian and Spanish descent, came to produce a book that would come to shape Ashkenazic culture, and Jewish […]

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 and translated by Sabine von Mering. In their new book, Neubauer, Germany’s best-known climate activist, and sociologist Repenning create the history of our future. For […]

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 by Luisa Neubauer and Alexander Repenning A conversation with co-Author Alexander Repenning and translator Sabine von Mering Moderated by Noah J. Gordon About the Book […]

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 the authors evolution as climate activists with a thorough analysis of how climate change impacts their generation. 2:00 – 2:30 pm Climate Organizer Training 2:30 […]

Join Vineyard-based illustrator Kate Feiffer (The Lamb Cycle) for a signing at Edgartown Books! What if "Mary Had a Little Lamb" had been written by Lord Byron, William Shakespeare, John Keats, Robert Browning or Emily Bronte? In "The Lamb Cycle, " David Ewbank (a retired English professor) reimagines the story of Mary and her lamb as told […]

Join author and professor emeritus David R. Ewbank for the launch of his new book, The Lamb Cycle, at Kent State University! In The Lamb Cycle, David Ewbank achieves the unthinkable—he writes so convincingly in the style of the great English poets that one could be lulled into thinking that Shakespeare himself was inspired to muse upon […]