Joy Ungerleider Jewish Book Month Program

On Friday, December 17th, Temple Israel will host the 16th Annual Joy Ungerleider Jewish Book Month Program immediately following the Qabbalat Shabat service.  This year, our guest speaker will be Dr. Eliza Slavet, author of Racial Fever: Freud and the Jewish Question.  This promises to be a very interesting event.  Rabbi Ronne Friedman interviewed Dr. Slavet on his television show, The Jewish Perspective, and was so impressed, he recommended her as a speaker, calling her book, "a magnum opus."  For more details on the event, please go to the Library's webpage for the Joy Ungerleider Jewish Book Month Program.  The Library has also prepared a list of resources available in the library or online for those interested in reading up on these topics before the event!

Also this month, the Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center in Newton is hosting Ted Gup as part of its going 2010 Distinguished Authors Series.  On Wednesday, December 8th at 10 am, Mr. Gup will discuss his book on the Depression Era entitled, A Secret Gift: How One Man's Kindness – And a Trove of Letters – Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression.  For more information on this free event, or any of the other upcoming author events in this series, please see the Ryna Greenbaum JCC Boston Jewish Book Fair website.