Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival
Thank You to Our Sponsors

The Festival is sincerely grateful to Board member Tamara Handelsman and her husband Harry Handelsman for establishing two endowments for the Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival. This year's Festival is also supported by the following endowments: The Bernard Wexler Fund for Jewish History, the Helen and Milton Covensky Fund and the Chaim Kempner Collection Library Fund. The Morris Cafritz Center for the Arts is supported in part by a grant from the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation.

Friends of the Festival

Epic Hero

Tamara and Harry Handelsman

Publisher

Susan Bykofsky
Melanie and Lawrence Nussdorf
Toni A. Ritzenberg
Judith and Herbert Weintraub

Editor

Deborah Carliner and Robert Remes
Naomi and Andrew Freeman
Faye and Jack Moskowitz
Michael Singer

Critic

Anonymous (2)
Babs and Rabbi A.N. Abramowitz
Arlene and David Epstein
Frances and Edmund Feldman
Lois and Michael Fingerhut
Paula Seigle Goldman
Martha Gross and Robert Tracy
Martha Kahn and Simeon Kriesberg
Maryla Korn
Stuart Kurlander
Phyllis and Morton Lessans
Myra and Allen Mondzac
Michelle Sender
Mindy Strelitz and Andrew Cornblatt
Shirley and Jack Serber
Francine Zorn Trachtenberg and Stephen Joel Trachtenberg
Diane Abelman Wattenberg

Reader

Anonymous
Dava Berkman
Jay M. Caplan
Ryna, Mel, Marcella and Neil Cohen
Claire Frankel
Lorraine Gallard and Richard Levy
Jay Gerard
Shoshana and Peter Grove
Jim Hambuechen
Roberta Hantgan
Florence and Peter Hart
Estelle and Dr. Irving Jacobs
Judith Korn
William Kreisberg
Carole Lerner
Ellen and Gary Malasky
Zena and Paul J. Mason
Arna Meyer Mickelson and Alan Mickelson
Deborah Prigal
Sally Rosenberg
Lynn and John Sachs
Madelyn R. Shapiro
Deborah Tannen
Rosa D. Wiener
Susan Willens

Other

Jeffrey Jorge Cohen
Gerrie Dubit
Marsha Dubrow
Rachel Hecht
David Marlin
Rona and Allan Mendelsohn
Gustava Taler
John A. Winterson

Gifts as of October 10, 2011

Community Sponsors

Festival Sponsors

   

                          


 

Program Sponsors

Adas Israel Congregation
American Sephardi Federation
American Technion Society
American University Center for Israel Studies
Bet Mishpachah
Embassy of Israel
Generation After
German Embassy
Goethe-Institut 
Human Rights Campaign-Religion and Faith Programs
The Jewish Primary Day School of the Nation’s Capital
The Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America
Kesher Israel: The Georgetown Synagogue
The National Museum of American Jewish Military History
Nehirim
PEN/Faulkner Foundation

In-Kind Sponsors

The Kosher Pastry Oven
Moment Magazine
Punk Torah
The Shalom Group
Tikkun Magazine
Washington Jewish Week
Zeek

Promotional Partners

Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington
The Partnership for Jewish Life and Learning

This year’s Festival is also supported by the following endowments and funds:
The Bernard Wexler Fund for Jewish History
The Helen and Milton Covensky Fund
The Chaim Kempner Collection Literary Fund
The Sugarman Family Children’s Book Award