Books & Authors


Complete 2011 Book Festival Schedule. Thanks to everyone who joined us this year.

Opening Night: Jennifer Griffin & Greg Myre
This Burning Land - Lessons from the Front Lines of the Transformed Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

November 7 • 7:30 pm • Mandel JCC

$15 Mandel JCC members • $20 General Public
Limited seating, reservations required • Dessert reception

Click here to see photos from Opening Night


 

Talia Carner
Jerusalem Maiden

November 8 • 1 pm • Mandel JCC

$10 Mandel JCC Members • $13 General Public
Limited seating, reservations required • Dessert reception

Click here to see photos from Talia Carner's event



 

Jonathan Spyer
The Transforming Fire – The Rise of the Israel-Islamist Conflict

Nov 9 • 7:30 pm • Siegel College of Judaic Studies

FREE and Open to the Public
Limited seating, reservations required • Dessert reception

 

Alison Pick
Far to Go

November 10 • 7:30 pm • Mandel JCC

$10 Mandel JCC Members • $13 General Public
Limited seating, reservations required • Dessert reception

 

Cleveland's Own Marilyn Cagin
Helen, a Memoir

Nov. 13 • 1:30 pm • Mandel JCC

FREE and Open to the Public
Limited seating, reservations required • Dessert reception

 

Cleveland's Own Al Gray
Absolutely Al

Nov 13 • 7 pm  • Mandel JCC

FREE & Open to the Public
Limited seating, reservations required • Dessert reception

 

Nadia Kalman
The Cosmopolitans

Nov 14 • 7:30 pm • Suburban Temple-Kol Ami

FREE & Open to the Public
Limited seating, reservations required • Dessert reception

 

Cleveland's Own Sally Wertheim
Remembering Cleveland’s Jewish Voices
, Edited by Sally H. Wertheim & Alan D. Bennett (OBM )

November 16 • 7:30 pm • Mandel JCC

FREE & Open to the Public
Limited seating, reservations required • Dessert reception

 

Gerda Weissmann Klein
All But My Life

November 17 • 7:30 pm • The Temple Tifereth Israel, 26000 Shaker Boulevard

FREE & Open to the Public
Limited seating, reservations required • Dessert reception

 

Kids Day
Nov 20 • 9:30-11:30 am • Mandel JCC

Character Breakfast with Corduroy • Fun filled afternoon, with Flowers the Clown • Light breakfast served • Arts & Crafts with PJ Library & much more!

Kids are free • $5 Mandel JCC Members • $8 General Public

Cleveland's Own Iris & Mort November
The Fine Art of Schnorring

Nov. 20 • 1:30 pm • Mandel JCC

FREE & Open to the Public
Limited seating, reservations required • Dessert reception

 

Sports Night Panel: Mark Kurlansky & Robert Lipsyte
Moderator: Randy Solganik

November 20 • Mandel JCC
6 pm: Light Ballpark Dinner
6:30 pm: Author panel

$10 Mandel JCC Members • $13 General Public

 

Story time with the PJ Library

Wednesday, November 16 •  10:30 – 11 am
Mandel JCC • Debra Ann November Room
26001 S. Woodland Road, Beachwood

Thursday, November 17
10:00 – 11 am • Stone Gardens
27090 Cedar Road, Beachwood, 44122

 

 For information please contact Julie Frayman at jfrayman@mandeljcc.org or (216) 831-0700 ext. 1316.