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SUMMARY:2023 Ann Arbor Jewish Book Festival
DESCRIPTION:The 36th Annual Ann Arbor Jewish Book Festival is fast approaching! Mark your calendars for November 5-19\, 2023 for two weeks of in-person\, virtual\, and hybrid events featuring a diverse array of authors bringing new fiction\, nonfiction\, and children’s literature to the greater Ann Arbor community.  \nMost events are free and open to the public; paid admission is required for Lunch & Learn sessions and the annual Sponsors’ Dinner.  \nTo see our author lineup\, learn more about sponsorship\, or visit the JCC’s virtual bookstore\, please visit https://jccannarbor.org/book-festival/ to learn more! \nOrganizational Sponsors as of October 2023 \n  \n    \n \n \n \n   \n 
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/2023-ann-arbor-jewish-book-festival/
LOCATION:Jewish Community Center of Ann Arbor\, 2935 Birch Hollow Drive\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48108\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ann Arbor Jewish Book Festival Program
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL PROGRAM\nWith Author Jennifer Rosner\, Once We Were Home\nModerated by Jenny Traig\n12:00 PM over Zoom\nFrom Jennifer Rosner\, National Jewish Book Award Finalist and author of The Yellow Bird Sings\, comes a novel based on the true stories of children stolen in the wake of World War II. \nAna will never forget her mother’s face when she and her baby brother\, Oskar\, were sent out of their Polish ghetto and into the arms of a Christian friend. For Oskar\, though\, their new family is the only one he remembers. When a woman from a Jewish reclamation organization seizes them\, believing she has their best interest at heart\, Ana sees an opportunity to reconnect with her roots\, while Oskar sees only the loss of the home he loves. \nRoger grows up in a monastery in France\, inventing stories and trading riddles with his best friend in a life of quiet concealment. When a relative seeks to retrieve him\, the Church steals him across the Pyrenees before relinquishing him to family in Jerusalem. \nRenata\, a post-graduate student in archaeology\, has spent her life unearthing secrets from the past–except for her own. After her mother’s death\, Renata’s grief is entwined with all the questions her mother left unanswered\, including why they fled Germany so quickly when Renata was a little girl. \nTwo decades later\, they are each building lives for themselves\, trying to move on from the trauma and loss that haunts them. But as their stories converge in Israel\, in unexpected ways\, they must each ask where and to whom they truly belong. Beautifully evocative and tender\, filled with both luminosity and anguish\, Once We Were Home reveals a little-known history. Based on the true stories of children stolen during wartime\, this heart-wrenching novel raises questions of complicity and responsibility\, belonging and identity\, good intentions and unforeseen consequences\, as it confronts what it really means to find home. \nJen­nifer Ros­ner is author of The Yel­low Bird Sings\, a 2020 Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award final­ist in Debut Fic­tion and Book Club. She also wrote the mem­oir If a Tree Falls: A Fam­i­ly’s Quest to Hear and be Heard\, and the Sydney Taylor Book Award Notable pic­ture book\, The Mit­ten String\, about deaf­ness in her fam­i­ly\, which she has traced back to Gali­cia in the 1800s. Jennifer’s books have been translated into a dozen languages. Her short writing has appeared in the New York Times\, The Times of Israel\, The Massachusetts Review\, the Forward\, and elsewhere. In addition to writing\, Jennifer has taught philosophy. She earned her B.A. from Columbia University and her Ph.D. from Stanford University. She lives in Western Massachusetts with her family.
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SUMMARY:Ann Arbor Jewish Book Festival Program
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL PROGRAM\nWith Author Jeff Bender\, Oh\, I Just Didn’t Know and Apparel Has No Gender and Author A.J. Sass\, Camp Quiltbag\n7:00 PM over Zoom\nApparel Has No Gender\nWhen Jeff Ben­der’s child Court­ney\, who was assigned male at birth\, asked for her first dress at one and a half years old\, all Jeff saw was the smile and delight on his child’s face. Lit­tle did he know that he and his fam­i­ly were about to embark on a jour­ney of learn­ing\, growth and accep­tance that would include issues sur­round­ing cloth­ing\, bath­rooms\, and sports teams. \nPar­ent­ing in today’s world is chal­leng­ing\, but par­ent­ing a gen­der-non­con­form­ing or gen­der-ques­tion­ing child can be con­fus­ing as well. Jeff opens up about his fam­i­ly’s expe­ri­ences with hon­esty and com­pas­sion\, detail­ing the strug­gles and joys of par­ent­ing two gen­der-flu­id chil­dren. Along with his own sto­ry\, Jeff shares the view­points of oth­er par­ents\, grand­par­ents\, and even his own wife. \nAppar­el Has No Gen­der also pro­vides guid­ance for par­ents want­i­ng to learn more about gen­der iden­ti­ties and expres­sion. Any par­ent will ben­e­fit from Jef­f’s lessons on how to grow in under­stand­ing and par­ent with uncon­di­tion­al love and support. \nCamp Quiltbag\nTwelve-year-old Abi­gail (she/​her/​hers) is so excit­ed to spend her sum­mer at Camp Quilt­bag\, an inclu­sive retreat for queer and trans kids. She can’t wait to find a com­mu­ni­ty where she can be her­self — and\, she hopes\, admit her crush on that one hot old­er actress to kids who will understand. \nThir­teen-year-old Kai (e/​em/​eir) is not as excit­ed. E just wants to hang out with eir best friend and eir park­our team. And e def­i­nite­ly does not want to think about the inci­dent that left eir arm in a sling — the inci­dent that also made Kai’s par­ents deter­mined to send em some­where e can feel like emself. \n\nAfter a bit of a rocky start at camp\, Abi­gail and Kai make a pact: If Kai helps Abi­gail make new friends\, Abi­gail will help Kai’s cab­in with the all-camp com­pe­ti­tion. But as they nav­i­gate a sum­mer full of crush­es\, queer iden­ti­ty explo­ration\, and more\, they learn what’s real­ly impor­tant. Camp Quilt­bag is a heart­felt sto­ry full of the joy that comes from being and lov­ing yourself. \nAbout the Authors\nJeff Ben­der is the father to two of the most incred­i­ble kids in the world. He and his wife have been mar­ried since 2005 and reside in the St. Louis area. Jeff found­ed The Lion and The Owl\, a com­pa­ny cre­at­ing a com­mu­ni­ty for LGBTQ+ youth to feel safe in while nor­mal­iz­ing the idea of gen­der-neu­tral cloth­ing. The Lion and the The Owl’s mis­sion is to sup­port and cel­e­brate inclu­siv­i­ty and diver­si­ty among our youth through appar­el\, com­mu­ni­ty\, and education. \n A. J. Sass is an author\, edi­tor\, and com­pet­i­tive fig­ure skater. He is the author of Ana on the Edge and Ellen Out­side the Lines as well as a con­trib­u­tor to This Is Our Rain­bow: 16 Sto­ries of Her\, Him\, Them\, and Us anthol­o­gy. He cur­rent­ly lives in the San Fran­cis­co Bay Area with his partner and their pets.
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