Jewish Book Fair

Nov. 3-11


Saturday, Nov. 3, 8pm

A.J. Jacobs (see "The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible")


Sunday, Nov. 4, 10:30am

Judith Viorst (Alexander and the Wonderful, Marvelous, Excellent, Terrific Ninety Days: An Almost Completely Honest Account of What Happened to Our Family When Our Youngest ... Came to Live With Us for Three Months)

Dell Jewish Community Center


Sunday, Nov. 4, 2pm

Hollace Ava Weiner and Rabbi Kenneth D. Rosemanb (Lone Stars of David: The Jews of Texas)

Capitol Extension Room E2.010


Sunday, Nov. 4, 3pm

Diane Ackerman (The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story)

Senate Chamber


Monday, Nov. 5, 7:30pm

Alana Newhouse (A Living Lens: Photographs of Jewish Life From the Pages of the Forward)

Dell Jewish Community Center


Tuesday, Nov. 6, 7:30pm

Charlotte Mendelson (When We Were Bad)

Jonathan Tropper (How to Talk to a Widower)

Dell Jewish Community Center


Wednesday, Nov. 7, 7:30pm

Jon Entine (Abraham's Children: Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People)

Rabbi David Nelson (Judaism, Physics and God: Searching for Sacred Metaphors in a Post-Einstein World)

Barnes and Noble Westlake (701 Capital of TX Hwy. S. Ste. P-860)


Wednesday, Nov. 7, 6:30pm

Austin-Area-Wide Teen Book Club With Frank McMillan (Cezanne Is Missing)

Dell Jewish Community Center


Thursday, Nov. 8, 11am

Book Lover's Luncheon With Rebecca Goldstein (Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity) and Yael Goldstein (Overture)

Dell Jewish Community Center


Thursday, Nov. 8, 7:30pm

Comics and Graphics Night With Paul Benjamin (Pantheon High) and Terry and Patty LaBan (Edge City: A Comic Strip Collection)

Barnes and Noble Westlake


Sunday, Nov. 11, 10am

For the Kids: Workshop With Susan Goldman Rubin (Haym Salomon American Patriot) and a performance by Joel Frankel

Dell Jewish Community Center


Sunday, Nov. 11, 7:30pm

Keynote: Iraq, Al-Qaeda, and the Future of Israel With Jeffrey Goldberg (Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide) and Lawrence Wright (The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11)

Dell Jewish Community Center

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