The 2023 New York Jewish Book Festival will be held from Sunday, November 12 to Sunday, November 19 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust (36 Battery Pl, New York, NY 10280) and virtually. This year’s festival will feature events for adults, kids, and families and programs connected to the Museum’s new exhibition, Courage to Act: Rescue in Denmark.
Admission is free for both Sundays.
Highlights of this year’s festival include:
- Mitch Albom launching his new book tour for The Little Liar.
- Lois Lowry speaking on her classic Number the Stars with a performance of songs from the Number the Stars musical by Sean Hartley from the Kaufman Music Center.
Full Festival Schedule
Sunday, November 12
11:00 AM – Portico with Leah Koenig
11:30 AM – The Necessity of Exile with Shaul Magid
1:00 PM – Kibbitz & Nosh: When We All Met at Dubrow’s Cafeteria with Marcia Bricker Halperin and Kevin Baker
1:00 PM – The Routledge History of Antisemitism with Robert Williams, Mehnaz Afridi, Mark Weitzman and James Wald
1:30 PM – Fierce Love and Awakenings with Rabbi Benjamin Spratt, Rabbi Joshua Stanton, and Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis
3:00 PM – The Little Liar with Mitch Albom
Monday, November 13
2:00 PM – Conversation: Isaac Bashevis Singer Writings on Yiddish and Yiddiskayt: The War Years 1939-1945 with David Stromberg and Lisa Newman
Tuesday, November 14
5:00 PM – The Postcard with Anne Berest and Leslie Camhi
Wednesday, November 15
6:30 PM – Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of MY Family with Daniel Finkelstein & Jonathan Goldberg
Thursday, November 16
4:00 PM – Crisis in the Middle East – a Conversation with Itamar Rabinovich and Tom Friedman
Sunday, November 19
11:00 AM – Hour of Need: The Daring Escape of the Danish Jews during World War II with Ralph Shayne
11:00 AM – Harboring Hope with Susan Hood
11:30 AM – Jewish Board Books with Sarah Aroeste, Ann Koffsky, and Nancy Churnin
1:00 PM – Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe with Steve Sheinkin
1:00 PM – Interactive Reading – Ella KVELLephant and the Search for Bubbe’s Yiddish Treasure with Jen Kostman
1:30 PM – All of a Kind Authors
3:00 PM – Number the Stars with Lois Lowry and Sean Hartley
This program is made possible in part by support from the Battery Park City Authority.
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