Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival
Thank You to Our Sponsors

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 Festival
Community Partners

Friends of the Festival

Gifts as of August 25, 2010

Epic Hero
Tamara and Harry Handelsman

Publisher
Susan and Marshall Bykofsky
Melanie and Larry Nussdorf
Toni Ritzenberg
Michael Singer, in memory of Ellen Cenzer
Judith and Herbert Weintraub

Editor
Barbara and Rabbi Nathan Abramowitz
Deborah Carliner and Robert Remes
Naomi and Andrew Freeman
Faye and Jack Moskowitz
David Bruce Smith
Diane Abelman Wattenberg

Critic
Anonymous
Dorothy Bennett
Debra Lerner Cohen and Edward Cohen
Lois and Michael Fingerhut
Paula Seigle Goldman
Martha Winter Gross and Robert Tracy
Martha Kahn and Simeon Kriesberg
Maryla Korn
Stuart Kurlander
Michelle Sender
Shirley and Jack Serber
Victor Shargai
Mindy Strelitz
Andrew Cornblatt

Reader
Anonymous
Dava Berkman
Fae Brodie
Jay M. Caplan
Richard and Amira Chadwick
Dorothy and Morris Cohen
Jeffrey Jorge Cohen
Ginny and Irwin Edlavitch, in memory of Jenny Franco
Lorraine Gallard and Richard Levy
James Hambuechen
Roberta Hantgan
Judith Korn
Sandra and Arnold Leibowitz
Jaqueline and Marc Leland
Carole Lerner
Ellen and Gary Malasky
Zena and Paul J. Mason
Myra and Allen Mondzac
Elaine Reuben
Sally Rosenberg
Madeyln R. Shapiro
Deborah Tannan and Michael Macovski

Additional Gifts
Renee and Mitchell Cooper
Gerrie Dubit
Jay Gerard
Debra Goldberg and Seth Waxman
Rachel Hecht
Rona and Allan Mendelsohn
Nancy and Samuel
Claudine Schweber
Barbara Smilow
Francine Zorn Trachtenberg and Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, in honor of Faye Moskowitz's 80th Birthday

Community Sponsors

Festival Sponsors
Jewish Book Council
Jewish Federation of Greater Washington

Program Sponsors
Adas Israel Congregation
American Sephardi Federation
American University Jewish Studies Program
DC Minyan
Embassy of Israel
Friends of the Jewish Chapel at the United States Naval Academy
The George Washington University Department of English
Human Rights Campaign
InterfaithFamily.com
Jewish Agency for Israel
The Jewish Primary Day School of the Nation’s Capital
The Johns Hopkins University M.A. in Writing Program
Kesher Israel: The Georgetown Synagogue
LGBTQ Resource Center-Georgetown University
Ohev Shalom - The National Synagogue
PEN/Faulkner Foundation
Temple Sinai
Tifereth Israel Congregation
Washington Hebrew Congregation

In-Kind Sponsors
American University Center for Israel Studies
Embassy of Argentina
The Hebraic Section, AMED, Library of Congress
The Kosher Pastry Oven
Moment Magazine
The New Republic
The Shalom Group

Promotional Partners
Busboys and Poets
Foundation for Jewish Studies
New Israel Fund
The Partnership for Jewish Life and Learning
Politics & Prose
The Writer’s Center