Quarantine(ish) Book Talks

(co-produced with Jewish Women’s Archive)

Streaming live occasionally on Thursdays at 8:00 pm EDT / 5:00 pm PDT

When the program is live, you can watch it in the box to your left.

If you would like to enter the Zoom meeting for future Quarantine Book Talks, click here to register, and you will receive an email from the Jewish Women’s Archive before the session with the information you will need to join on Zoom.

Click on the images below to watch previous episodes.


During these challenging days of social distancing, jewishLIVE and the Jewish Women’s Archive, invite you to read something other than the news and to come together virtually to discuss books, writing, and telling Jewish stories.

Upcoming book club gatherings with the authors listed below:

  • Thursday, April 22: Special National Poetry Month event with Joy Ladin, Shara McCallum, Lesléa Newman

  • Thursday, April 29: Brandy Colbert, author of Little & Lion, on a Black Jewish teen’s exploration of identity


Episode 1 (Rachel Kadish, author of The Weight of Ink, and Tova Mirvis, author of The Book of Separation)

Episode 2 (Rachel Baranbaum, author of A Bend in the Stars)

Episode 3 (Esther Safran Foer, author of I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir)

Episode 4 (Alicia Jo Rabins)

Episode 5 (Sarah Hurwitz, author of Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life — in Judaism)

Episode 6 (Abby Stein, author of Becoming Eve)

Episode 7 (Laura Geller, co-author of Getting Good at Getting Older)

Episode 8 (Anna Solomon, author of The Book of V)

Episode 9 (Rachel Zucker, author of SoundMachine)

Episode 10 (Lizzie Skurnick, editor of Pretty Bitches)

Episode 11 (Natasha Diaz, author of Color Me In)

Episode 12 (Chavi Karkowsky, author of High Risk: Stories of Pregnancy, Birth, and the Unexpected)

Episode 13 (Jennifer Rosner, author of The Yellow Bird Sings)

Episode 14 (Esther Amini, author of Concealed)

Episode 15 (with Laura Lippman, author of My Life as a Villainess)

Episode 16 (Bess Kalb, author of Nobody Will Tell You This But Me)

Episode 17 (with Mimi Lemay, author of What We Will Become)

Episode 18 (with Maira Kalman, illustrator of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein)

Episode 19 (with Myra Strober, author of Sharing the Work)

Episode 20 (with Janice Kaplan, author of The Genius of Women)

Episode 21 (with Talia Lavin, author of Culture Warlords)

Episode 22 (with Jodi Eichler-Levine, author of Painted Pomegranates and Needlepoint Rabbis, with guest artist Arielle Tonkin)

Episode 23 (with Judy Batalion, author of The Light of Days)

Episode 24 (with literary translator Jessica Cohen)

Episode 25 (National Poetry Month event with Joy Ladin, Shara McCallum, and Lesléa Newman)

Episode 26 (with Brandy Colbert, author of Little & Lion)

Episode 27 (with Tova Feldshuh, actress and author of Lilyville: Mother, Daughter, and Other Roles I’ve Played)

 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

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