Thank You to Our Sponsors and Partners

The Festival is sincerely grateful to Board member Tamara Handelsman and her husband Harry Handelsman for establishing two endowments for the Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival. This year's Festival is also supported by the following endowments: The Bernard Wexler Fund for Jewish History, the Muriel K. Skolnick "Children's Hour" Endowment, the Helen and Milton Covensky Fund, the Chaim Kempner Collection Library Fund, the Sugarman Family Children's Book Award Fund and the Ruth Behrend and Charles Haskell Small Fund. This year's Festival programs are also receiving support from the United Jewish Endowment Fund and the Humanities Council of Washington DC. The Morris Cafritz Center for the Arts is supported in part by a grant from the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation.

Festival Sponsors

Gifts as of September 2009.

Epic Hero
Tamara and Harry Handelsman

Author
Francine Zorn Trachtenberg and Stephen Joel Trachtenberg

Publisher
Melanie and Larry Nussdorf
Toni Ritzenberg

Editor
Barbara and Rabbi Nathan Abramowitz
Susan and Marshall Bykofsky
Deborah Carliner and Robert Remes
Faye and Jack Moskowitz
Michael Singer
David Bruce Smith
Judith and Herbert Weintraub

Critic
Anonymous
Dorothy Bennett
Arlene and David Epstein
Francis and Edmund Feldman
Naomi and Andrew Freeman
Paula Seigle Goldman
Maryla Korn
Martha Kahn and Simeon Kriesberg
Stuart Kurlander
Phyllis and Morton Lessans
Arna Meyer Mickelson and Alan Mickelson
Michelle Sender
Shirley and Jack Serber
Martha Winter Gross and Robert Tracy
Diane Abelman Wattenberg

Reader
Anonymous
Dava Berkman
Fae Brodie
Jay M. Caplan
Jeffrey Jorge Cohen
Ryna, Mel, Marcella and Neil Cohen
Ava and Neal Gross
Jim Hambuechen
Roberta Hantgan
Judith Korn
Carole Lerner
Ellen and Gary Malasky
Paula Veiner McMartin
Myra and Allen Mondzac
Dr. Sherry Levy-Reiner and Rabbi Fred N. Reiner
Madelyn and Herbert Shapiro
Matthew Watson, in memory of Marjorie Watson

Friend of the Festival
Geraldine Dubit
Jay Young Gerard
Judith Krones
David Marlin
David Shaibe
Leslie Weisman

Community Partners