Books, Reviews, Prints

Jewish Literature Live!

2009 - 2018

Taught by Professor Faye Moskowitz,
author of And the Bridge is Love,
A Leak in the Heart
, Whoever Sees This,
I Love You
and other works.

Chair, English Department, George Washington University


Jewish Literature Live 2018 – Final Semester

Shulem Deen

Owen LewisSometimes Full of Daylight

A collection of poetry

Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018

Marvin Center 405


Shulem DeenAll Who Go Do Not Return

A memoir about being ousted from an ultra-Orthodox life and the consequences

Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Marvin Center Amphitheater


Daniel Torday

Daniel TordayThe Last Flight of Poxyl West, A Novel

Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Marvin Center Amphitheater


Faye Moskowitz

Faye MoskowitzA Leak in the Heart

Thursday, March 22, 2018

Marvin Center Amphitheater


Serena Dykman

Serena DykmanNana

A documentary film on the Holocaust

Thursday, April 5, 2018

Marvin Center 309


Susan Faludi

Susan FaludiIn the Darkroom

A memoir about Faludi's Holocaust survivor-father who had a sex change in his eighties

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Marvin Center Amphitheater

Jewish Literature Live 2017

Ariel SabarMy Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for his Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq

February 2, 2017

Marvin Center Amphitheater


Elizabeth PolinerAs Close to Us as Breathing

February 23, 2017

Marvin Center Amphitheater


Etgar KeretAuthor of The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God

March 9, 2017

Marvin Center Room 308


Sam Lipsyte

Sam LipsyteThe Fun Parts

March 30, 2017

Marvin Center Room 308


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Geraldine BrooksPeople of the Book

April 13, 2017

Marvin Center Room 308


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Faye MoskowitzAnd the Bridge is Love

Marvin Center Amphitheater

Jewish Literature Live 2016

Annabelle Gurwich

Annabelle GurwichI See You Made an Effort

TV star, actor and humorist

January 21, 2016

Marvin Center 301


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Peter SlevinMichelle Obama: A Life

Journalist & Author

February 4, 2016

Marvin Center 301


Aryeh Lev Stollman

Aryeh Lev StollmanThe Far Euphrates

February 18, 2016

Marvin Center 301


Judith Viorst

Judith ViorstNecessary Losses

March 3, 2016

Marvin Center 307


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Mary MorrisThe Jazz Palace

March 24, 2016

Marvin Center 301


Molly AntapolThe UnAmericans

April 7, 2016

Marvin Center 301


Phyllis_Rose

Phyllis RoseThe Shelf and Parallel Lives

April 19, 2016

Marvin Center 308


Roz Chast

Roz ChastCan't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?

New Yorker cartoonist & author of the graphic memoirs

April 28, 2016

Marvin Center 307

Jewish Literature Live 2015


Nick KotzThe Harness Makers Dream

February 5, 2015

Marvin Center Ampitheater


Daniel Handler/Lemony SnicketWe Are Pirates and A Series of Unfortunate Events

February 19, 2015

Elliot School at George Washington University


Jean KorelitzAdmission

March 3, 2015

Marvin Center Room 301



Thomas Beller

Tom BellerNine Stories

March 26, 2015

Marvin Center Ampitheater


Michelle Brafman

Michelle BrafmanWashing the Dead

April 9, 2015

Marvin Center Ampitheater


Gary Shteyngart

Gary ShteyngartLittle Failure

April 23, 2015

Jack Morton Auditorium

Jewish Literature Live 2014

Dara Horn

Dana HornA Guide for the Perplexed

Jan. 30, 2014

Marvin Center 405


Anouk MarkovitzI am Forbidden

February 13, 2014

Marvin Center Amphitheater


Helene WeckerThe Golem and the Jinni

February 27, 2014

Marvin Center Amphitheater



Claudia Roth PierpontRoth Unbounds

March 20, 2014

Marvin Center Amphitheater

Joy LadinThrough the Door of Life: a Jewish Journey between Genders

memoirist

April 3, 2014

Marvin Center


Fran LebowitzThe Fran Lebowitz Reader

author and quintessential New Yorker

April 17, 2014

Jack Morton Auditorium

Jewish Literature Live 2013

Lisa ZeidnerLove Bomb

author, poet and professor

January 24, 2013


Jami AttenbergThe Middlesteins

author

February 7, 2013


Bruce Jay FriedmanA Mother's Kisses

novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor

February 21, 2013


David BezmozgisNatasha: and Other Stories

award-winning writer and filmmaker

March 19, 2013


Tony Kushner, Angels in America

Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and screenwriter

April 9, 2013


Nathan EnglanderWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank

author

April 25, 2013

Jewish Literature Live 2012
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Aryeh lev StollmanThe Far Euphrates

author and neuroradiologist

January 26, 2012

Jack Morton Auditorium


Nicole KraussThe History of Love

author

March 22, 2012

Jack Morton Auditorium


Pearl AbrahamThe Romance Reader

American novelist, essayist and short story writer

March 22, 2012


Erica JongFear of Flying

Woman, Author, Icon and... Italophile

April 10, 2012


Bel KaufmanUp the Down Staircase

esteemed author and professor

April 24 & 25, 2012

Jack Morton Auditorium

Jewish Literature Live 2011

Adam KirschBenjamin Disraeli (Jewish Encounters)

poet and literary critic

2011

Gary Shteyngart

Gary ShteyngartAbsurdistan

novelist and satirist

2011

Steve SternThe Wedding Jester

author and teacher

2011

Lilly Rivlin

journalist, writer, and filmmaker

2011

Allegra GoodmanThe Cookbook Collector

author

2011

E.L. Doctorow

novelist, editor, and professor

2011

Sana KrasikovOne More Year

fiction writer,

2011

Jewish Literature Live 2010

(partial list)

Howard JacobsonThe Finkler Question

novelist and journalist.

2010

Myla GoldbergBee Season

author

2010

Rebecca GoldsteinMazel

philosopher, novelist and public intellectual.

2010

Gabriel BrownsteinThe Man from Beyond

author and professor

2010

 

Jewish Literature Live 2009

Anya UlinishOne More Year

novelist, graphic novelist, and short-story writer

March 5, 2009

Michael ChabonWonder Boy

novelist and short story writer

March 23, 2009

Art SpiegelmanMaus

American cartoonist, editor, and comics advocate

April 2, 2009

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