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Hyman S. and Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival

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Saturday, October 6 | Opening Night
8:00 pm
Finding Home: A Theatrical Celebration of Jewish Short Stories
Directed by Nick Olcott
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Sunday, October 7 
11:00 am
The Chaim Kempner Author Series Presents
Glenn D. Smith, Jr.
Something on My Own: Gertrude Berg and American Broadcasting, 1929–1956
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3:00 pm
Ruth R. Wisse
Jews and Power
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7:30 pm
Deborah Tannen and musical duo Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer
Mothers and Daughters in Book and Music: You're Wearing That? Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation and A Parents' Home Companion CD
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Monday, October 8
7:30 pm
Gina B. Nahai
Caspian Rain
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Tuesday, October 9
7:00 pm
André Aciman
Call Me by Your Name
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8:00 pm
Steven Lee Beeber
The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's: A Secret History of Jewish Punk
Venue: The Black Cat, 1811 14th Street NW
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Wednesday, October 10
Noon
Flora M. Singer
Flora, I was but a Child
Featuring Michael Berenbaum
FREE. Pre-registration is highly recommended: (202) 777-3250.

7:00 pm
Devyani Saltzman
Shooting Water and screening of Academy Award-nominee Water
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Thursday, October 11
Noon
Laura Cohen Apelbaum and Wendy Turman
Jewish Washington: Scrapbook of an American Community
FREE. Pre-registration is highly recommended: (202) 777-3250.

7:30 pm
Rutu Modan
Exit Wounds
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Friday, October 12
6:00 pm
Shabbat dinner for parents and kids with author Meredith L. Jacobs
The Modern Jewish Mom's Guide to Shabbat: Connect and Celebrate–Bring Your Family Together with the Friday Night Meal
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Saturday, October 13
8:00 pm
Nathan Englander
The Ministry of Special Cases
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Sunday, October 14
11:00 am
The Sugarman Family Award for Jewish Children’s Literature presents the 2007 winner, Mendel's Accordion by Heidi Smith Hyde and illustrator Johanna van der Sterre, with live klezmer music for the entire family. 
FREE. Pre-registration is highly recommended: (202) 777-3250.

2:00 pm
Daniel Mendelsohn
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
With photographs by Matt Mendelsohn
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5:00 pm
Moment Magazine's Emerging Writer Awards with
Elisa Albert, How This Night Is Different; Ann Kirschner, Sala's Gift; and Steve Sheinkin, The Adventures Of Rabbi Harvey
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Monday, October 15
7:30 pm
Shalom Auslander
Foreskin's Lament
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Tuesday, October 16 | Closing Night
8:00 pm
Gerald L. Bernstein Memorial Lecture Presents Walter Isaacson
Einstein: His Life and Universe 
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