Be There…At The Fair with the Miami Beach JCC Miami Book Fair Outing,
Sunday, November 24, 10 am to 3:30 pm
Please join us for an amazing day at the Miami Book Fair as we experience as a community the street fair or enjoy the presentations by the amazing Jewish authors listed below. Price includes entrance to the fair, transportation to and from the Fair as well as a tasty boxed lunch from 17Restaurant.
Pick up at the JCC at 10:00 am and return to the JCC at 3:30 pm.
Below are some of the Jewish authors presenting on Sunday:
11am Resident Historian at the HistoryMiami Museum Dr. Paul George and Henry Green, Jewish Miami Beach. From a disregarded, forlorn island in the early 1900s to the world-famous resort and go-to place of today, Jews have played a prominent role in Miami Beach's achievements and fame. Initially consigned to a tiny enclave on the southern tip of Miami Beach, the community's Jewish population quickly expanded north, from South Beach to Golden Beach, and assumed a leadership position in nearly every phase of the city's life by the late 1900s.
Noon - Keren Blankfeld, Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story. The “mesmerizing and inspirational” (Judy Batalion) true story of two Holocaust survivors who fell in love in Auschwitz, only to be separated upon liberation and lead remarkable lives apart following the war—and then find each other again more than 70 years later.
Noon - Leela Corman, Victory Parade. The author of the Eisner-nominated graphic novel Unterzakhn now gives us a heart-wrenching, phantasmagorical tale of love, loss, and trauma both personal and global, set during World War II in Brooklyn, New York, and in the newly liberated Buchenwald concentration camp. One of a group of women working as welders in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Rose Arensberg has fallen in love with a disabled veteran while awaiting the return of her husband, Sam, a soldier in the American army serving in Europe.
1:30pm Shalom Auslander, Feh: A Memoir From the acclaimed author of Foreskin’s Lament, a memoir of the author’s attempt to escape the biblical story he’d been raised on and his struggle to construct a new story for himself and his family.