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 Helen and Milton Covensky Fund and the Chaim Kempner Collection Library Fund. The Morris Cafritz Center for the Arts is supported in part by a grant from the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation. Friends of the FestivalCommunity PartnersFriends of the Festival
Gifts as of August 25, 2010
Epic HeroTamara and Harry Handelsman
PublisherSusan and Marshall BykofskyMelanie and Larry NussdorfToni RitzenbergMichael Singer, in memory of Ellen CenzerJudith and Herbert Weintraub
EditorBarbara and Rabbi Nathan AbramowitzDeborah Carliner and Robert RemesNaomi and Andrew FreemanFaye and Jack MoskowitzDavid Bruce SmithDiane Abelman WattenbergCriticAnonymousDorothy BennettDebra Lerner Cohen and Edward CohenLois and Michael FingerhutPaula Seigle GoldmanMartha Winter Gross and Robert TracyMartha Kahn and Simeon KriesbergMaryla KornStuart KurlanderMichelle SenderShirley and Jack SerberVictor ShargaiMindy StrelitzAndrew Cornblatt
ReaderAnonymousDava BerkmanFae BrodieJay M. CaplanRichard and Amira ChadwickDorothy and Morris CohenJeffrey Jorge CohenGinny and Irwin Edlavitch, in memory of Jenny FrancoLorraine Gallard and Richard LevyJames HambuechenRoberta HantganJudith KornSandra and Arnold LeibowitzJaqueline and Marc LelandCarole LernerEllen and Gary MalaskyZena and Paul J. MasonMyra and Allen MondzacElaine ReubenSally RosenbergMadeyln R. ShapiroDeborah Tannan and Michael MacovskiAdditional GiftsRenee and Mitchell CooperGerrie DubitJay GerardDebra Goldberg and Seth WaxmanRachel HechtRona and Allan MendelsohnNancy and SamuelClaudine SchweberBarbara SmilowFrancine Zorn Trachtenberg and Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, in honor of Faye Moskowitz's 80th BirthdayCommunity SponsorsFestival SponsorsJewish Book CouncilJewish Federation of Greater WashingtonProgram SponsorsAdas Israel CongregationAmerican Sephardi FederationAmerican University Jewish Studies ProgramDC MinyanEmbassy of IsraelFriends of the Jewish Chapel at the United States Naval AcademyThe George Washington University Department of EnglishHuman Rights CampaignInterfaithFamily.comJewish Agency for IsraelThe Jewish Primary Day School of the Nation’s CapitalThe Johns Hopkins University M.A. in Writing ProgramKesher Israel: The Georgetown SynagogueLGBTQ Resource Center-Georgetown UniversityOhev Shalom - The National SynagoguePEN/Faulkner FoundationTemple SinaiTifereth Israel CongregationWashington Hebrew CongregationIn-Kind SponsorsAmerican University Center for Israel StudiesEmbassy of ArgentinaThe Hebraic Section, AMED, Library of CongressThe Kosher Pastry OvenMoment MagazineThe New RepublicThe Shalom GroupPromotional PartnersBusboys and PoetsFoundation for Jewish StudiesNew Israel FundThe Partnership for Jewish Life and LearningPolitics & ProseThe Writer’s Center
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