Welcome to the first Florida JCCs Jewish Book Fest - A virtual festival celebrating over 25 events featuring Jewish authors, books and topics of interest from October 8-25, 2020.
Purchase a $75 Fest Pass ($100 value) for access to all events, or pick and choose and purchase individual events for $10 per event.
To purchase the books featured in the Book Fest, please click here and support our local bookseller Books & Books.
Calendar at a Glance:
October 8 at 7:30 pm: Thane Rosenbaum, Saving Free Speech from Itself
October 11 at 7:30 pm: Jill Wine-Banks, The Watergate Girl
October 12 at 1:00 pm: Florida Author Spotlight Presented by The Miami Book Fair (multiple authors)
October 12 at 7:30 pm: Stories of Addiction, Authors Cameron Douglas Long Way Home and Dan Peres As Needed for Pain
October 14 at 1:00 pm: Mulit-Generational Jewish Stories, Authors Esther Amini Concealed and Jonathan Kaufman Last Kings of Shanghai, moderated by Dr. Tudor Parfitt, Professor of Religious Studies at FIU
October 18 at 11:00 am: Boys to Men, Authors Michael Ian Black A Better Man and Cleo Stiller Modern Manhood
October 18 at 4:00 pm: Transgender Stories Through Mothers' Eyes, Jo Ivester Always a Boy and Mimi Lemay What We Will Become
October 20 at 12:00 pm: Fiction Forum, 8 Authors over 4 Hours (Jennifer Rosner, Max Gross, Leslie K. Barry, Meg Waite Clayton, Jan Eliasberg, David Hopen, Linda Kass, Hallie Ephron)
October 20 at 7:30 pm: Women in a Changing World, Erica Katz The Boys' Club and Anna Solomon The Book of V
October 22 at 7:30 pm: Ruth Behar, Letters from Cuba
October 25 at 4:00 pm: Closing Event: Brad Meltzer and illustrator Christopher Eliopolos
