A TRIUMPHANT LIFE: Helene Scriabine never imagined she would see her Russian homeland again, but thanks to Glasnost the UI professor emeritus is returning to see work begin on a film inspired by her life. -- ENVIRONMENT BECOMES A HOT ISSUE: The...
Dara Horn, whose first novel, "In the Image," won the National Jewish Book Award, reads from her second novel, "The World to Come."
Critic Gisele Toueg called the new book "an intoxicating combination of mystery, spirituality, redemption, piety,...
Nadia Abduljabbar stresses the need to address the similarities between Islam, Judaism, and Christianity, considering "different religions as different windows toward Heaven." Nihad Sirees addresses the concept of Jihad in Islam, and the...
David Albahari reads from his book, Götz and Meyer. He begins by discussing his time spent in the International Writing Program in 1986, and how those experiences have informed his writing since. Albahari goes on to explain that all of his...
Harry Brod reads from Superman Is Jewish?: How Comic Book Superheroes Came to Serve Truth, Justice, and the Jewish-American Way. With great wit and compelling arguments, Brod situates superheroes within the course of Jewish-American history: they...