Calendar of Events
Hyman S. and Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival

• Saturday, October 6
• Sunday, October 7
• Monday, October 8
• Tuesday, October 9
• Wednesday, October 10
• Thursday, October 11
• Friday, October 12
• Saturday, October 13
• Sunday, October 14
• Monday, October 15
• Tuesday, October 16

Saturday, October 6 | Opening Night
8:00 pm
Finding Home: A Theatrical Celebration of Jewish Short Stories
Directed by Nick Olcott

Sunday, October 7
11:00 am
The Chaim Kempner Author Series Presents
Glenn D. Smith, Jr.
Something on My Own: Gertrude Berg and American Broadcasting, 1929–1956

3:00 pm
Ruth R. Wisse
Jews and Power

7:30 pm
Deborah Tannen and musical duo Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer
Mothers and Daughters in Book and Music: You're Wearing That? Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation and A Parents' Home Companion CD

Monday, October 8
7:30 pm
Gina B. Nahai
Caspian Rain

Tuesday, October 9
7:00 pm
André Aciman
Call Me by Your Name

8:00 pm
Steven Lee Beeber
The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's: A Secret History of Jewish Punk
Venue: The Black Cat, 1811 14th Street NW

Wednesday, October 10
Noon
Flora M. Singer
Flora, I was but a Child
Featuring Michael Berenbaum

7:00 pm
Devyani Saltzman
Shooting Water and screening of Academy Award-nominee Water

Thursday, October 11
Noon
Laura Cohen Apelbaum and Wendy Turman
Jewish Washington: Scrapbook of an American Community

7:30 pm
Rutu Modan
Exit Wounds

Friday, October 12
6:00 pm
Shabbat dinner for parents and kids with author Meredith L. Jacobs
The Modern Jewish Mom's Guide to Shabbat: Connect and Celebrate–Bring Your Family Together with the Friday Night Meal

Saturday, October 13
8:00 pm
Nathan Englander
The Ministry of Special Cases

Sunday, October 14
11:00 am
The Sugarman Family Award for Jewish Children’s Literature presents the 2007 winner, Mendels' Accordion by Heidi Smith Hyde and illustrator Johanna van der Sterre, with live klezmer music for the entire family 

2:00 pm
Daniel Mendelsohn
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
With photographs by Matt Mendelsohn

5:00 pm
Moment Magazine's Emerging Writer Awards with
Elisa Albert, How This Night Is Different; Ann Kirschner, Sala's Gift; and Steve Sheinkin, The Adventures Of Rabbi Harvey

Monday, October 15
7:30 pm
Shalom Auslander
Foreskin's Lament

Tuesday, October 16 | Closing Night
8:00 pm
Gerald L. Bernstein Memorial Lecture Presents Walter Isaacson
Einstein: His Life and Universe