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Kid’s Day at The J with “Challah For Shabbat”

Mandel JCC Stonehill Auditorium 26001 S Woodland Rd, Beachwood, Ohio

The Cleveland Jewish Book Festival is back for its 25th year! Join Sara Holly Ackerman for a kids' day centered on her book, Challah For Shabbat! This sweet, rhyming, beautifully illustrated picture book celebrates Jewish joy and intergenerational love as it follows a girl and her grandmother preparing for Shabbat dinner by baking traditional challah from scratch. Join us for ... Read More

Free

DACO Book Launch and Signing!

The Decorative Arts Center of Ohio 145 E. Main St., Newark, Ohio

Celebrate the release of exhibition curator Caitlin McGurk’s Tell Me a Story Where the Bad Girl Wins: The Life and Art of Barbara Shermund (Fantagraphics, 2024). In her book, McGurk honors the life and art of pioneering cartoonist Barbara Shermund, whose career spanned the heyday of American magazines and helped shape the visual style of The New Yorker. Shermund lived an alternative lifestyle ... Read More

Author Talk with Dr. Alex Kor

Mandel JCC Stonehill Auditorium 26001 S Woodland Rd, Beachwood, Ohio

The Cleveland Jewish Book Festival is back for its 25th year! Join Dr. Alex Kor to discuss his memoir, A Blessing, Not a Burden. By all accounts, Dr. Alex Kor’s life has been a miracle. The son of two Holocaust survivors who narrowly escaped death, Kor grew up in Indiana – a state with Midwestern charm and an ignominious history ... Read More

Free

Two Hillbillies and a Queered Conversation

University of Akron Sociology Department 302 Buchtel Mall, Akron, Ohio

Come visit the Miami Township Branch of the Dayton Public Library for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers Bureau event with LuSter Singelton and Julia Applegate!

Author Talk with Robin Judd

Mandel JCC Stonehill Auditorium 26001 S Woodland Rd, Beachwood, Ohio

The Cleveland Jewish Book Festival is back for its 25th year! Join Robin Judd to discuss her book, Between Two Worlds. Historian Robin Judd, whose grandmother survived the Holocaust and married an American soldier after liberation, introduces us to the Jewish women who lived through genocide and went on to wed American, Canadian and British military personnel after the war. ... Read More

$10 – $12

Author Talk with R. Derek Black

Suburban Temple Kol Ami 22401 Chagrin Blvd, Cleveland, Ohio

The Cleveland Jewish Book Festival is back for its 25th year! Join R. Derek Black to discuss their memoir, The Klansman's Son. The Klansman’s Son is an astonishing memoir of a childhood built on fear and of breaking from a community of hate. Derek Black was raised to take over the white nationalist movement in the United States. Their father, ... Read More

Free

Jefferson’s America: Divided but ONE | Family Program for Young Audiences

Cleveland History Center 10835 East Blvd., Cleveland, Ohio

Thomas Jefferson makes his debut in Cleveland, OH to discuss his life’s purpose as founding father, profound thinker, inquisitive innovator, and author of freedom. Northeast Ohio will learn how one man’s intellectual ambition shaped a nation in the midst of strong national division. This event is a Living History program for the general public, college students, high school students, and ... Read More

Jefferson’s America: Divided but ONE | Interview with Jefferson for Adult Audiences

Cleveland History Center 10835 East Blvd., Cleveland, Ohio

Thomas Jefferson makes his debut in Cleveland, OH to discuss his life’s purpose as founding father, profound thinker, inquisitive innovator, and author of freedom. Northeast Ohio will learn how one man’s intellectual ambition shaped a nation in the midst of strong national division. This event is a Living History program for the general public, college students, high school students, and ... Read More

Transcending NAGPRA: Indigenizing Collections Care and Repatriation

Virtual

Join the Institute for Human Science and Culture for their speaker series on reducing harms in museums for a talk with Courtney Little Axe! The University of Montana Anthropological Curation Facility (UMACF) has been working in collaboration with the Tribal Historic Preservation Officers from each Montana tribe to formulate policies and procedures in accordance with cultural protocols for repatriation. The ... Read More

Ohio Humanities Grants Program Informational Webinar

Virtual

Join the Ohio Humanities program staff for an overview of the grants program and what funding opportunities are available to humanities-based organizations across Ohio. Register for the event using this link!

The Life and Art of Barbara Shermund: DACO Curator Series and Author Event with Caitlin McGurk

Bexley Public Library 2411 E Main St, Columbus, Ohio

Join Curator Caitlin McGurk at the Bexley Public Library for a talk about the art and life of trailblazing feminist cartoonist Barbara Shermund, who is featured in the exhibition and McGurk's new book Tell Me a Story Where the Bad Girl Wins: The Life and Art of Barbara Shermund, on display at the Decorative Arts Center of Ohio September 21-December 29, ... Read More

From the Nuremberg Laws to the Night of Broken Glass: Race, Law, and the Foundations of the Holocaust

Marvin Memorial Library 29 W Whitney Ave., Shelby, Ohio

Come visit the Marvin Memorial Church for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers Bureau event with Barry Jackisch about the history that led up to Night of Broken Glass. This presentation explores the increasing persecution of Jews and other targeted groups in Nazi Germany. Far from a random process, this persecution developed with the entire weight of the German state and legal system. ... Read More

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