22nd Annual Austin Jewish Book Fair

Events take place at the Jewish Community Association of Austin Hall (7300 Hart, Dell Jewish Campus) unless otherwise noted. For more information or to buy tickets, see www.jcaaonline.org or call 735-8058.

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Wednesday, Nov. 9

7pm: David Ansel (The Soup Peddler's Slow and Difficult Soups)

$10/$8 students, seniors, JCAA members

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Thursday, Nov. 10

7:30pm: Mary Doria Russell (A Thread of Grace) Free

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Friday, Nov. 11

11:30am: Pascale Bos (German-Jewish Literature in the Wake of the Holocaust) Free

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Saturday, Nov. 12

8pm: Alan Zweibel (The Other Shulman)

$10/$8 students, seniors, JCAA members

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Sunday, Nov. 13

1pm: Molly Levite Griffis (Simon Says)

ECP Multipurpose Room (on Dell Jewish Campus), free

2pm: Kids' Day featuring Nelsongs, the Nelson Brothers' Rockin Kids Review

$3 (pay at door)

7:30pm: Sam Apple (Schlepping Through the Alps) with Mark Rubin's Rubinchick's Yiddish Ensemble $10/$8 students, seniors, JCAA members

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Monday, Nov. 14

8pm: Steven Roberts (My Fathers' Houses) Free

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Tuesday, Nov. 15

6:30pm: Linda Skolnik (The Knitting Way: A Guide to Spiritual Self-Discovery) Free

8pm: Rabbi Alan Lew (Be Still and Get Going)

Free

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Wednesday, Nov. 16

10:30am: Aubrey Davis (Bagels From Benny)

Free

6:30pm: Mark Oppenheimer (Thirteen and a Day: The Bar and Bat Mitzvah Across America)

Congregation Agudas Achim Social Hall (on Dell Jewish Campus), free

7:30pm: Israeli Book Club Event

Shifra Horn's Four Mothers Free

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Thursday, Nov. 17

11am: Book Lover's Luncheon

Gigi Anders (Jubana! The Awkwardly True and Dazzling Adventures of a Jewish Cubana Goddess)

Ilene Beckerman (Makeovers at the Beauty Counter of Happiness)

$20/$18 students, seniors, JCAA members

RSVP by Wednesday, Nov. 9

7:30pm: David Rothkopf (Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power) Free

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Special Encore Event, Dec. 7

7:30pm: Daniel Libeskind (Breaking Ground: Adventures and Life in Architecture)

Discussion moderated by Michael Benedikt, director of the Center for American Architecture and Design at UT-Austin

$10/$8 students, seniors, JCAA members

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Also This Week ...

November's installment of the Utter Reading Series features poet Dan Rifenburgh (Advent), a recent Dobie-Paisano fellow, as well as novelist and Michener Director James Magnuson, whose The Hounds of Winter we reviewed last month (Oct. 28, Books, "All Lit Up"); Tuesday, Nov. 8, 7pm, BookPeople.