Register for all events at https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://jewishlibraries.org/events-calendar/__;!!KGKeukY!3OMmPrzsUbogwTATanpfBSbQASqXu4SfMwNMXUzSm4cwQ16vWtQRfs6VE30iwgrwJL0d8fyzJHhnPh3NGe8j2PVPQYac2cUf$ *AJL Canada Roundtable: Canadian Authors’ Showcase Sunday, May 5, 2024 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET / 8:00 pm Israel Time In this showcase, twelve Canadian authors of children’s, YA, and adult books—Rona Arato, Brayden Bernstein, Nancy Cohen, Zehava Cohn, Anne Dublin, Gila Green, Kathy Kacer, Etta Kaner, Joanne Levy, Carol Matas, Ira Robinson, and Janice Weizman—will introduce their most recent or forthcoming (2024) titles, providing an overview of the newest Canadian literature, both fiction and nonfiction, by Canadian Jewish writers. Publisher Margie Wolfe will follow, speaking about her thirty-five years publishing in Canada, first with Women’s Press and currently with Second Story Press, which she cofounded in 1988. We will end with a Q&A. This event is sponsored by AJL Canada and is open to AJL members only. *Books About Books: Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American, with Rachel Gordan Thursday, May 9, 2024 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
Rachel Gordan is the Shorstein Professor of American Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Florida. She received her PhD from Harvard University in North American Religions, her BA from Yale in American Studies, and her MAR from Yale Divinity school. After receiving her PhD, she held postdoctoral fellowships at Northwestern University and at the University of Toronto, before teaching at Boston University and Brandeis in 2016–2017. As a scholar of American religion, she researches Judaism and Jewish culture from the early 20th century to the present, with a particular focus on the immediate post-WWII era, middlebrow culture, and American Jewish literary history. Her articles have appeared in American Jewish History, AJS Review, Jewish Quarterly Review, and Jewish Social Studies in addition to the Forward,Religion and Politics, and other magazines. She contributed to a number of collected volumes as well. Her first monograph, Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American was just published (March 2024). This event is sponsored by AJL's RAS Division and is open to members only. *AJL Roundtable: A Virtual Event to Commemorate The 85th Anniversary of the SS St. Louis Wednesday, May 15, 2024 9:30 am PT / 12:30 pm ET / 8:30 pm Israel Time The mission of the SS St. Louis Legacy Project is to promote greater awareness and dialogue on issues of human rights, immigration, and refugee policy. Through its proprietary Education Through Drama programs, the Foundation produces events, educational presentations, and curricula that serve a worldwide student body as well as institutional and communal audiences. https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://stlouislegacyproject.org/*about-us__;Iw!!KGKeukY!3OMmPrzsUbogwTATanpfBSbQASqXu4SfMwNMXUzSm4cwQ16vWtQRfs6VE30iwgrwJL0d8fyzJHhnPh3NGe8j2PVPQavy1Npd$ This event is sponsored by AJL's RAS and SSCPL Divisions and is open to members only. Register for all events at https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://jewishlibraries.org/events-calendar/__;!!KGKeukY!3OMmPrzsUbogwTATanpfBSbQASqXu4SfMwNMXUzSm4cwQ16vWtQRfs6VE30iwgrwJL0d8fyzJHhnPh3NGe8j2PVPQYac2cUf$
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