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DAY
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DATE
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TIME
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LOCATION |
EVENT NAME
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BUY
TICKETS
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AUTHOR(S)
FEATURED
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Wednesday
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Oct. 29
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7 PM
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Lecture at The Harry Ransom Center at UT
Dessert Reception and booksigning following lecture at Hillel Foundation at UT
In cooperation with The Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, The Harry Ransom Center, and Texas Hillel.
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An Evening of Photography
Diaspora: Homelands in Exile
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Frédéric Brenner
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Saturday
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Nov 1
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8 PM
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JCC Community Hall
In partnership with the Texas Book Festival.
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Opening Night
It’s Only Temporary: The Good News and the Bad News of Being Alive
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Evan Handler
Listen to the KUT interview
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| Sunday |
Nov 2 |
11:30 AM and
1 PM
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Texas State Capitol
15th St & Guadalupe
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Jewish Book Fair at the Texas Book Festival
Jewish "Junior League": The Rise and Demise of the Fort Worth Council of Jewish Women by Hollace Ava Weiner at 11:30AM
The Glen Rock Book of the Dead by Marion Winik at 1 PM
The Fancy Nancy series and Tea for Ruby illustrated by Robin Press Glasser at 1 PM in the "Read Me a Story" Tent
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Hollace Ava Weiner
Marion Winik
Robin Preiss Glasser
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| Sunday |
Nov 2 |
6 PM |
JCC Community Hall |
25th Anniversary Banquet Honoring Past AJBF Chairs and Lecture with Michael Oren
Power, Faith and Fantasy: America and the Middle East: 1776 to the Present
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Michael Oren
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Monday
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Nov 3
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7:30 PM
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JCC Community Hall |
An Evening of Emerging Writers
The Pages In Between: A Holocaust Legacy of Two Families, One Home
Songs for the Butcher's Daughter
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Erin Einhorn
Peter Manseau
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Wednesday
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Nov 5
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7:30 AM
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JCC Community Hall |
Bagels with the Bureau Chief
Breaking News: A Stunning and Memorable Account of Reporting from Some of the Most Dangerous Places in the World
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Martin Fletcher
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| Wednesday |
Nov 5 |
7:30 PM |
JCC Community Hall |
A Night of Politics
Pearls, Politics, and Power: How Women Can Win and Lead
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Madeleine Kunin |
| Thursday |
Nov 6 |
11 AM |
JCC Community Hall
In partnership with the JCAA Women's Division.
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Book Lover's Luncheon
MOOSE: A Memoir of Fat Camp
The Jewish Princess Cookbook
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Stephanie Klein
Tracey Fine and Georgie Tarn
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| Thursday |
Nov 6 |
7:30 PM |
JCC Community Hall |
An Evening of Comedy
Just Say Nu: Yiddish for Every Occasion
(When English Just Won't Do)
Clothing Optional: And Other Ways to Read These Stories
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Michael Wex
Alan Zweibel
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| Sunday |
Nov 9 |
10 AM |
JCC Community Hall |
A "Good" Morning
God is the Good We Do
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Michael Benedikt |
| Sunday |
Nov. 9 |
10 AM
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JCC Community Hall
In cooperation with the Austin area Temples' Religious Schools.
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Civil Rights Sunday
Kid’s Author Events
As Good As Anybody: Martin Luther King and Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Amazing March Toward Freedom and A is for Abraham: A Jewish Family Alphabet
(Appropriate for K-4th grades.)
A Thousand Never Evers
(Appropriate for 5-8th grades.)
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Richard Michelson
Shana Burg with her father Harvey Burg
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| Sunday |
Nov 9 |
6:15 PM Kristallnacht Services
7:30 PM Lecture
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Kristallnacht Services in the ECP Multi-Purpose Room
Lecture in JCC Community Hall
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An Evening of Hope
Rabbi Hirschfield will be leading prayers commemorating the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht before his book talk.
You Don’t Have to Be Wrong for Me to Be Right: Finding Faith Without Fanaticism
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Rabbi Brad Hirschfield |
| Monday |
Nov 10 |
7:30 PM |
Texas Hillel
In cooperation with The Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, Texas Hillel, and the Israeli Consulate and in partnership with Moadon Hasefer, the Israeli Book Club.
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A Night of Fiction All the Way from Israel
A Pigeon and a Boy
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Meir Shalev |
