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Recent Authors

Date	Time	Title	Speaker(s)
Mar 14, 2007	7:00 pm	Diana Lobel : A Sufi-Jewish Dialogue Philosop...	Diana Lobel
Apr 30, 2006	7:00 pm	The History of Love	Nicole Krauss
Apr 23, 2006	10:30 am	I Refused to Die – Stories of Holocaust Survi...	Susie Davidson
Apr 09, 2006	10:30 am	Every Mother Is a Daughter	Perri Klass and Shei...
Mar 15, 2006	7:00 pm	Stars of David	Abigail Pogrebin
Jan 18, 2006	7:00 pm	Zeppo's First Wife: New and Selected Poems	Gail Mazur

Event Type:	Speaker Series, Author Series
Date:	Mar 14, 2007
Title:	Diana Lobel : A Sufi-Jewish Dialogue Philosophy and Mysticism in Bahya ibn Paquda's Duties
Speaker(s):	Diana Lobel
Start:	7:00 pm
Location:	Congregation Eitz Chayim
Description:	"This manuscript contains a subtle, probing, and rich exposition of the key issue of devotional self-examination within Jewish and Islamic mysticism. The author has a superb sense of Arabic, Sufi mystical psychology, and the extraordinary dialogue (sometimes openly acknowledged, often left unacknowledged) among Jewish, Islamic, Christian, and Greek traditions at the time of Ibn Paquda)."--Michael Sells, University of Chicago. Written in Judeo-Arabic in eleventh-century Muslim Spain but qui...

Event Type:	Speaker Series, Author Series
Date:	Apr 30, 2006
Title:	The History of Love
Speaker(s):	Nicole Krauss
Start:	7:00 pm
Location:	Congregation Eitz Chayim
Description:	The voice of Leo Gursky, one of the most memorable characters in recent fiction, surges ebulliently throughout Nicole Krauss’s eagerly anticipated new novel, THE HISTORY OF LOVE. Few have achieved the dizzying heights of this fresh and original work, first excerpted in the February 2004 issue of The New Yorker. With consummate grace, Krauss weaves together the stories of two unlikely heroes in Leo Gursky and Alma Singer. Both are searching for the one thing that might make them whole, and both ...

Event Type:	Speaker Series, Author Series
Date:	Apr 23, 2006
Title:	I Refused to Die – Stories of Holocaust Survivors and the Soldiers Who Liberated Them - Joined by Child Survivor Rosian Zernan
Speaker(s):	Susie Davidson
Start:	10:30 am
End:	12:00 pm
Location:	Congregation Eitz Chayim
Description:	Rosian Zernan, a child survivor of the Holocaust, will be joining Susie Davidson in this special Holocaust remembrance program. Rosian Zernan's life was saved when her parents pushed her through a hole they dug under the fence of the Kovno Ghetto. She is a former vice president of the World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust and is active internationally in survivor affairs. Susie Davidson, a longtime local journalist, was impressed by the Holocaust survivors and World Wa...

Event Type:	Speaker Series, Author Series
Date:	Apr 09, 2006
Title:	Every Mother Is a Daughter
Speaker(s):	Perri Klass and Sheila Solomon Klass
Start:	10:30 am
Location:	Congregation Eitz Chayim
Description:	Dr.Perri Klass and her mother, Sheila Solomon Klass will read and speak on their book: Every Mother Is a Daughter: The Neverending Quest for Success, Inner Peace, and a Really Clean Kitchen (Recipes and Knitting Patterns Included) Sheila Solomon Klass grew up in Brooklyn, a child of 1920s New York City, who never learned to drive, a child of the Depression, a child of an orthodox Jewish home where a girl's education was considered unnecessary, who took a job as a live-in babysitter in or...

Event Type:	Speaker Series, Author Series
Date:	Mar 15, 2006
Title:	Stars of David
Speaker(s):	Abigail Pogrebin
Start:	7:00 pm
Location:	Congregation Eitz Chayim
Description:	In Stars of David, Abigail Pogrebin shares intimate conversations with sixty-two well-known Jews about the role Judaism and Jewish identity (or lack thereof) play in their personal lives. Natalie Portman, Steven Spielberg, Sarah Jessica Parker, Congressman Barney Frank, Mike Wallace, Kenneth Cole, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Leonard Nimoy, Mike Nichols, Neil Simon, and Eliot Spitzer are among dozens of Jewish news-makers who talked frankly with Pogrebin about their childhood rituals and admitted th...

Event Type:	Speaker Series, Author Series
Date:	Jan 18, 2006
Title:	Zeppo's First Wife: New and Selected Poems
Speaker(s):	Gail Mazur
Start:	7:00 pm
Location:	Porter Square Books
Description:	Gail Mazur is distinguished Writer in Residence at Emerson College’s Writing, Literature and Publishing Program and founding director of the Blacksmith House Poetry Center. Her most recent book, They Can’t Take That Away From Me, was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award. She has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College as well as the St. Botolph Club Foundation Distinguished Artist Award