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Wednesday, February 14, 1:00 - 3:30 pm at Temple Shalom • Topic: Memoir Peter Gethers – My Mother’s Kitchen Annabelle Gurwitch – Peter Gethers wants to give his aging mother a spectacular feast featuring her favorite dishes. The problem is he doesn’t know how to cook. So he embarks upon an often hilarious and always touching culinary journey that will allow him to prepare the meal of his mother’s dreams. When Judy Gethers, daughter of a restaurateur – legendary New York Ratner’s – was in her 50s, she discovered a passion for cooking. She became a mentor to famous chefs, including Wolfgang Puck, and taught alongside Julia Child. Peter has written a memoir about how food and family can do much more than feed us – they can nourish our souls. Peter Gethers is an author, screenwriter, playwright, book editor, and film and television producer. His eleven previous books include The Cat Who Went to Paris, the first in a bestselling trilogy about his extraordinary cat, Norton. Jane Healey – The Saturday Evening Girls Club For four young immigrant women living in Boston’s North End in the early 1900s, escaping tradition doesn’t come easy. But at least they have one another and the Saturday Evening Girls Club, a social pottery-making group offering respite from their hectic home lives – and hope for a better future. The friends face family clashes and romantic entanglements, career struggles and cultural prejudice. But through their unfailing bond, they draw strength to transform their immigrant stories into the American lives of their dreams. The book is based on the true story of the Saturday Evening Girls Club. Jane Healey was inspired to write The Saturday Evening Girls Club after learning of the group’s history while researching an article on their namesake pottery, also known as Paul Revere Pottery. Sana Krasikov – The Patriots: A Novel When Florence Fein abandons her middle-class Brooklyn Jewish family in 1934 for a steamer ship to the Soviet Union, she believes she’s seeking the secular feminist promises that the Great Depression denied so many American women. But once trapped in Stalin’s USSR, she suffers the travails of Soviet Jewry through an American’s eyes. Decades later, her son Julian – an émigré Wednesday, March 7, 1:00 - 3:30 pm at Temple Shalom • Topic: Fiction Wherever You Go, There They Are When Annabelle Gurwitch was a child, surrounded by a cast of epically dysfunctional relatives, she secretly prayed that it was all a terrible mistake. She longed to be part of a loving and supportive family. Gurwitch writes about the family she tried to escape and the ones she joined by accident or on purpose, including her southern ancestors, the theater tribe, and an adult summer camp for vegans. If she’s learned anything, it’s that no matter how hard you try to escape your crazy family, you just end up being part of another crazy family. Annabelle Gurwitch is the author of the three books, including New York Times bestseller I See You Made an Effort. She is a regular commentator on NPR and a former host of Dinner and a Movie on TBS. Other numerous television appearances include Boston Legal, Seinfeld and Murphy Brown. Monday, February 26, 1:00 - 3:30 pm at Naples Conf. Ctr. • Debut Fiction Panel Renée Rosen – Windy City Blues Windy City Blues, set in 1950s and ’60s Chicago, is the riveting story of Leeba Groski, a young Jewish Polish immigrant, and Red Dupree, a black blues guitarist who left the south to play in the burgeoning Chicago music scene. Shunned by Leeba’s Orthodox Jewish family, Leeba and Red risk threats of violence in an era in American history that frowned on mixed-race couples. Renée skillfully reconstructs the racial tensions and vibrant music scene that defined Chicago during those decades as she weaves this story of forbidden romance into the history of Chess Records and the birth of the blues and rock ’n’ roll in Chicago. Renée Rosen is the bestselling author of White Collar Girl, What the Lady Wants, Dollface, and the young adult novel, Every Crooked Pot. to New York – returns to Putin’s Moscow to redeem his mother’s betrayals. The Patriots explores the entangled relationship of two superpowers as it played out across three generations of one Jewish-American family. Sana Krasikov was born in Ukraine and grew up in the Republic of Georgia and the U.S. In 2017 she was named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists. Her collection One More Year has won numerous awards. Ellen Umansky – The Fortunate Ones Sponsored by U.S. Bank and JFCS Sponsored by Beth Tikvah Vienna, 1939. Rose’s parents secure passage for their young daughter on a kindertransport to England. After the war, grief-stricken Rose searches out a piece of her childhood: the Chaim Soutine painting her mother had cherished. In modern-day Los Angeles, Lizzie carries a burden of guilt. As a teenager, Lizzie threw a party and the Soutine painting that had provided comfort after her mother had died was stolen. The painting will bring Lizzie and Rose together, and ignite a friendship, eventually revealing secrets that hold painful truths. Ellen Umansky writing has been published in The New York Times, Slate and Playboy, as well as in the short-story anthologies Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction from the Edge and Sleepaway: Writings on Summer Camp. She has worked in the editorial departments of the Forward, Tablet and The New Yorker. Sponsored by Temple Shalom Sisterhood Marilyn Simon Rothstein – Lift and Separate Lift and Separate is the story of Marcy Hammer, a Jewish woman forced to restart her life after husband Harvey, the bra king, leaves her for a perkier fit. Even though she is devastated by his departure, she still has her indomitable spirit and selfrespect. She has no intention of falling apart, either, even when her adult children drop a few bombshells of their own, and she discovers a secret about her new, once-in-a-lifetime best friend. Life may be full of setbacks, but by lifting herself up by her own lacy straps, Marcy finds a way to begin again. Marilyn Rothstein graduated with a journalism degree from New York University, and worked for Seventeen. When she moved to Connecticut, she launched an advertising agency, which she ran for more than 25 years. At the age of 43, she became an adult bat mitzvah, achieving her lifelong goal of chanting Torah. Friday, March 16, 1:00 - 3:00 pm Unitarian Univ. Cong. • $15/$20 at the door Alan Zweibel – For This We Left Egypt? Join us for an afternoon of humor as five-time Emmy Award-winner Alan Zweibel entertains us with his jokes and stories. A television writer for Saturday Night Live, Curb Your Enthusiasm and It’s Garry Shandling’s Show, his theatre credits include collaborating with Billy Crystal on the Tony Award-winning play 700 Sundays. Alan Zweibel has written several books, including Bunny, Bunny: Gilda Radner, A Sort of Love Story, which he wrote following Gilda’s death. His novel The Other Shulman won the 2006 Thurber Prize for American Humor. He is one of the coauthors of For This We Left Egypt, a parody of the Passover Haggadah, which he wrote with comedians Dave Barry and Adam Mansbach. In this somewhat irreverent book, the authors take you through the Seder, from getting rid of all the chametz in your home to a retelling of the Passover story, including wrapping up the evening by taking at least forty-five minutes to say good-bye to everyone. SOLD OUT Sponsored by Naples Jewish Cong. Monday, April 9, 2:30 - 4:15 pm Beth Tikvah • $15/$20 at the door Sponsored by Hadassah Abigail Pogrebin – My Jewish Year Although she grew up with some basic holiday rituals, Abigail Pogrebin realized how little she knew about the origins, purpose and current relevance of the entire Jewish calendar. She wanted to understand what had kept the oldest traditions vibrant and the more-recently-added holidays urgent. She embarked on an entire year of research, observance and writing about every ritual, fast and festival in one Jewish year. Whether you’re seeking an accessible, digestible roadmap for Jewish life or a fresh take on what you’ve been practicing for a lifetime, Abigail’s journey will leave you educated, charmed and inspired. Abigail Pogrebin is the author of Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk about Being Jewish, and One and the Same, about life as a twin. Her bestselling Kindle Single, Showstopper, chronicled her teenage adventure in a rare Sondheim flop on Broadway. A former producer for 60 Minutes and Charlie Rose, she moderates her own interview series at the JCC Manhattan. For Festival updates, links to author websites and more, visit the official Festival website: www.JewishBookFestival.org
Become a Book Festival Patron and receive numerous benefits! When you become a Book Festival Patron for just $197, you help support the Festival and receive benefits not available to other ticket buyers: Patrons get tickets to all 11 events at a savings of $38 when compared to buying individual tickets. Patrons do not have to arrive early to get good seats. Priority seating is reserved and held until five minutes before the start of each event. Patrons are invited to at least two private events with select authors. At this year’s luncheon event with actor Stephen Tobolowsky, the ticket price includes a copy of his book. Patrons will be the first in line to meet Stephen and get their book signed. Patrons have their own “concierge.” Jewish Book Festival Committee member and Patron Liaison Gina Cannon will send a reminder to Patrons prior to each event. Patrons have an expedited patron “check in” area at each Festival program. Recognition in the Federation Star. Jewish Book Festival Committee Patti Boochever Sue Bookbinder Steve Brazina Gina Cannon Coordinator: Ted Epstein Co-Chairs: Phil Jason, Robin Mintz, Susan Pittelman Gayle Dorio Lenore Greenstein Judith Finer Freedman Lee Henson Susie Goldsmith Ida Margolis Carole Greene Irene Pomerantz Dina Shein Iris Shur Arlene Sobol Elaine Soffer Festival Sponsors We are grateful to the following businesses and organizations for their support of the Collier County Jewish Book Festival. Venues All locations are in Naples (area code 239): Beth Tikvah: 1459 Pine Ridge Road (434-1818) Hilton Naples: 5111 Tamiami Trail N. (430-4900) Naples Conference Center: 1455 Pine Ridge Road (597-1666) Temple Shalom: 4630 Pine Ridge Road (455-3030) Unitarian Universalist Cong. of Greater Naples: 6340 Napa Woods Way (455-6553) Book Sales Most of the Festival’s books are on display in the Barnes & Noble stores at the Waterside Shops and Coconut Point. Be sure to pick up a free Festival bookmark while you’re there. Books will also be available for purchase and signing at each author’s event. Festival Website & Email Visit the official Festival website at www.jewishbookfestival.org for more information on the authors and their books, event updates and a printable order form. Have questions that have not been answered in this brochure? Send an email to fedstar18@gmail.com or call the Federation office at 239.263.4205. Tickets Are Transferable Consider becoming a Book Festival Patron. Even if you can’t make it to all 11 events, you can gift your tickets to friends, colleagues and family members. Multi-Author Events For the events with more than one author, due to travel arrangements, the order in which they present will be decided a few days prior to their event. If you’d like to know the order, please email fedstar18@gmail.com or call the Federation office at 239.263.4205. Jewish Book Festival Ticket Order Form Book Festival Patron: Tickets to all 11 events A savings of $38 on event tickets. Plus these bonuses: reserved priority seating at each event, invitations to at least two private author receptions, and recognition in the Federation Star. $197 x ___ = total $_____ Featured Events: Thursday, November 16 @ 7:00pm Steve Dorff (mini-concert, snacks) $25 x ___ = $_____ ($36 at the door) Wednesday, December 6 @ 11:30am Luncheon w/ Stephen Tobolowsky $54 x ___ = $_____ includes copy of My Adventures With God Please indicate choice of meal: chicken salmon vegetarian Sunday, December 10 @ 7:00pm Alexandra Silber (theatrical show, snacks) $36 x ___ = $_____ ($45 at the door) Friday, March 16 @ 1:00pm Alan Zweibel $15 x ___ = $_____ ($20 at the door) Monday, April 9 @ 2:30pm Abigail Pogrebin $15 x ___ = $_____ ($20 at the door) Multi-Author Events: Monday, January 8 @ 1:00pm Robert Gandt & Bryan Mark Rigg $15 x ___ = $_____ ($20 at the door) Wednesday, January 24 @ 1:00pm Pam Jenoff & Gavriel Savit $15 x ___ = $_____ “ Monday, January 29 @ 1:00pm Leslie Bennetts & Susan Silver $15 x ___ = $_____ “ Wednesday, February 14 @ 1:00pm Peter Gethers & Annabelle Gurwitch $15 x ___ = $_____ “ Monday, February 26 @ 1:00pm J. Healey, S. Krasikov, E. Umansky $15 x ___ = $_____ “ Wednesday, March 7 @ 1:00pm Renée Rosen & Marilyn Simon Rothstein $15 x ___ = $_____ “ • No physical tickets will be issued. Simply check in at each event. • You will receive an email reminder about a week prior to each event. • No refunds unless entire event (both authors for multi-author events) is canceled and not rescheduled. • If an author cancels (weather, illness, etc.) we will attempt to reschedule the author in late March or April. Your original reservation will be good for the rescheduled event. • If you cannot attend an event, you can give your seat to a friend. Call the Federation. • Open seating at all events. Patrons and Sponsors will have reserved seats. • Event payments are NOT tax deductible. • If a venue needs to be changed, ticket buyers will be notified via email. • All events will take place in Naples. 3 rd Annual presented by YES! I’d love to attend the Jewish Book Festival! I am purchasing tickets as indicated above for a total of $_______. Check enclosed (payable to Jewish Federation of Collier County) Please charge my: MasterCard Visa American Express Card #____________________________________ Exp. ____/____ cvv#_______ Name (please print): __________________________________________________ Address:___________________________________________________________ City: ________________________________ ST: ______ Zip: ________________ Phone: ___________________ Email: ___________________________________ 4 ways to order your tickets: 1 Mail this order form to: Jewish Federation of Collier County 2500 Vanderbilt Beach Rd., Ste. 2201 Naples, FL 34109 2 In person at the Federation office. Please fill out form in advance. 3 Charge by phone: 239.263.4205 Please fill out form prior to calling. 4 Fax this order form with credit card info to 239.263.3813 Most authors appearing at the Collier County Jewish Book Festival are members of the Jewish Book Council Network.
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