Teaching Cleveland, in association with playwright Faye Sholiton and filmmaker Marquette Williams, with generous support from America250 and the Ohio Humanities Council, is offering facilitated community conversations to accompany the viewing of “A Death in the City: In the Wake of Segregation” as a part of the project called “On Our Watch” focused on using history to empower individuals to create … Read More
Jefferson’s America: Divided but ONE | Interview with Jefferson for Adult Audiences
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 | Family Program for Young Audiences
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
Author Talk with R. Derek Black
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
Author Talk with Robin Judd
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
Author Talk with Dr. Alex Kor
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
Kid’s Day at The J with “Challah For Shabbat”
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
Author Talk with Lauren Grodstein
The Cleveland Jewish Book Festival is back for its 25th year! Join Lauren Grodstein to discuss her book, We Must Not Think of Ourselves. A story inspired by a little-known piece of history in the lives of Jewish occupants of the Warsaw Ghetto in World War II, a project with the code name “Oneg Shabbat.” In 1940, Adam Paskow becomes … Read More
Author Talk with Yardena Schwartz
The Cleveland Jewish Book Festival is back for its 25th year! Join Yardena Schwartz to discuss her book, Ghosts of a Holy War. The 1929 massacre of the ancient Jewish community of Hebron was one of the most seminal events in the Arab-Israeli conflict–until October 7, 2023. One century apart, the echoes of 1929 in 2023 are key to understanding the complexities … Read More
Opening Night featuring Stuart Eizenstat
The Cleveland Jewish Book Festival is back for its 25th year! Join Stuart Eizenstat for the opening night! Based on interviews with over 60 key figures in American diplomacy, including former presidents and secretaries of state, and major political figures abroad, Eizenstat covers every major contemporary international agreement, from the treaty to end the Vietnam War to the Kyoto Protocols … Read More