ENCINITAS, California (Press Release) Thanks to a generous grant from the Leichtag Family Foundation,the San Diego Jewish Book Fair will present four events in North County: Alison Pick on Nov. 3 at Seacrest Village in Encinitas; Joseph Braude and Rabbi Mark Glickman on Nov. 8 at the Dove Library in Carlsbad; and Kathy Kacer on Nov. 10 at Temple Solel in Cardiff. Details and ticket information are below.
Alison Pick – Thursday, November 3, 12:00 noon, Seacrest Village in Encinitas
Centering on both the story of Pavel and Anneliese Bauer – Czech victims of the Holocaust – and the present-day narrative of the historian unraveling their tragic tale, Pick’s latest novel, Far to Go, is both heart-rending and poetic. Enjoy lunch with this deft, engaging storyteller whose own story – she converted to Judaism during the course of writing this novel – is as enthralling as her prose.
Pick’s first novel, The Sweet Edge, was a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of 2005, and was optioned for film by Four Seasons Productions. Her first collection of poetry, Question & Answer, was short-listed for the Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poetry in Canada, and for a Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award. The title poem of her second collection, The Dream World, appeared in the Best Canadian Poetry of 2008. Pick’s writing has also appeared in publications including The Globe and Mail, The Walrus, and enRoute Magazine. She was the winner of the 2005 CBC Literary Award for Poetry, the 2003 National Magazine Award for Poetry, and the 2002 Bronwen Wallace for most promising writer under the age of 35.
Born in Toronto in 1975, Pick grew up in Kitchener, Ontario and in Quebec’s Eastern Townships. She has a BA in Psychology from the University of Guelph and an M Phil from Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. Currently on faculty at the Banff Centre for the Arts Wired Writing Studio, Alison Pick lives with her family in Toronto.
Joseph Braude – Tue., November 8 at 2:00 p.m., Dove Library in Carlsbad
It’s a true-life detective story about a murder in Casablanca. In The Honored Dead: A Story of Friendship, Murder, and the Search for Truth in the Arab World, author and journalist Joseph Braude, the first Western journalist to embed with Arab security forces, shares the true story of a Moroccan man fighting a shady, authoritarian system as he strives to uncover what really happened the night his best friend was killed and searches for justice in a land where people “come to make fortunes, jihad, and trouble.”
Bornto an Iraqi-Jewish family in Providence, Rhode Island, Joseph Braude studied Near Eastern Languages at Yale and Arabic and Islamic history at Princeton. He is fluent in Arabic, Persian, and Hebrew, and has lived, studied, and worked in most Middle Eastern capitals. His writing has appeared in The New Republic, The Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, Playboy, Glamour, and Best Life. Since July 2010, his weekly commentary in Arabic, “Letter from New York” (“Risalat New York”) has aired nationally in Morocco on Radio MED. He is also the author of The New Iraq (Basic Books, 2003). Braude has also worked counter-terrorism cases for the FBI. In his spare time, Braude plays jazz piano and enjoys running and yoga.
Rabbi Mark Glickman – Tuesday, November 8 at 7:30 p.m., Dove Library in Carlsbad
It’s not quite Indiana Jones, but as far as Jewish scholars are concerned, it’s pretty close. In Sacred Treasure: The Cairo Genizah, Glickman takes us inside one of the greatest discoveries in Jewish
history, an historical bounty of manuscripts and texts – more than 300,000 pages, many more than 1000 years old – uncovered in the genizah (a storage place for sacred texts) in the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Cairo.
history, an historical bounty of manuscripts and texts – more than 300,000 pages, many more than 1000 years old – uncovered in the genizah (a storage place for sacred texts) in the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Cairo.
Glickman is the spiritual leader of Congregation Kol Ami in Woodinville WA, and of Congregation Kol Shalom on Bainbridge Island WA. He is also a regular religion columnist for the Seattle Times,
and has served on the faculties of Pacific Lutheran University and Seattle University. From 1997-2004, he was rabbi of Temple Beth El in Tacoma, Washington.
and has served on the faculties of Pacific Lutheran University and Seattle University. From 1997-2004, he was rabbi of Temple Beth El in Tacoma, Washington.
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio and raised in suburban Chicago, Rabbi Glickman graduated cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis in 1985. He received his Rabbinical Ordination from Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati in 1990. After serving as the Union of American Hebrew Congregations’ Director of Youth Leadership for one year, Rabbi Glickman became the Assistant Rabbi of Temple Israel in Dayton, Ohio. Later promoted to Associate Rabbi, Rabbi Glickman served in Dayton for six years. Rabbi Glickman is affiliated with a variety of community and civic organizations, and has written and spoken on many topics concerning Judaism and modern life. On January 1, 2000, the Tacoma News Tribune named Rabbi Glickman one of the “20 People to Watch for the Century.”
Kathy Kacer — Thursday, November 10 at 10:00 a.m., Temple Solel, Cardiff
In Restitution: A Family’s Fight for their Heritage Lost in the Holocaust, Kacer tells the true story of the Reesers, a family that fled Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Holocaust, then returned years after
the war to recover four treasured paintings and something even more valuable: their family heritage. Kacer’s re-telling of this family’s search takes us into a labyrinth of bureaucratic corruption and deep-rooted prejudices.
the war to recover four treasured paintings and something even more valuable: their family heritage. Kacer’s re-telling of this family’s search takes us into a labyrinth of bureaucratic corruption and deep-rooted prejudices.
Kacer’s parents were both survivors of the Holocaust. Their stories of survival were an inspiration to her as she was growing up. As an adult, she was determined to write their stories and pass them on.
Kacer was born in Toronto and has a Masters degree in psychology. She worked with troubled teenagers and their families for many years. A winner of the Silver Birch, Red Maple, Hackmatack and Jewish Book
Awards, and a finalist for the Geoffrey Bilson and Norma Fleck Awards, Kacer has written many unforgettable stories inspired by real events. Her books have also been published in many countries including Germany, China, Slovenia, Thailand, England, Japan, and Belgium. Her novels are stories of hope, courage, and humanity in the face of overwhelming adversity. Kacer also speaks to children in schools and libraries, and to university students around the country and in Europe, about the importance of understanding the Holocaust and keeping its memory alive.
Admission prices to the North County presentations range from $6 to $17. SeacrestVillage is located at 211 Saxony Road, Encinitas, the Dove Library is at 1775 Dove Lane, Carlsbad, and Temple Solel is located at 3575 Manchester Ave., Cardiff. For more information or to purchase tickets, call the JCC Box Office at 858-362-1348 or visit the web site at sdjbf.org.
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Preceding provided by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture
Preceding provided by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture