Join Curator Caitlin McGurk at the Bexley Public Library for a talk about the art and life of trailblazing feminist cartoonist Barbara Shermund, who is featured in the exhibition and McGurk’s new book Tell Me a Story Where the Bad Girl Wins: The Life and Art of Barbara Shermund, on display at the Decorative Arts Center of Ohio September 21-December 29, … Read More
Author Talk with R. Derek Black
The Cleveland Jewish Book Festival is back for its 25th year! Join R. Derek Black to discuss their memoir, The Klansman’s Son. The Klansman’s Son is an astonishing memoir of a childhood built on fear and of breaking from a community of hate. Derek Black was raised to take over the white nationalist movement in the United States. Their father, … Read More
Author Talk with Robin Judd
The Cleveland Jewish Book Festival is back for its 25th year! Join Robin Judd to discuss her book, Between Two Worlds. Historian Robin Judd, whose grandmother survived the Holocaust and married an American soldier after liberation, introduces us to the Jewish women who lived through genocide and went on to wed American, Canadian and British military personnel after the war. … Read More
Author Talk with Dr. Alex Kor
The Cleveland Jewish Book Festival is back for its 25th year! Join Dr. Alex Kor to discuss his memoir, A Blessing, Not a Burden. By all accounts, Dr. Alex Kor’s life has been a miracle. The son of two Holocaust survivors who narrowly escaped death, Kor grew up in Indiana – a state with Midwestern charm and an ignominious history … Read More
DACO Book Launch and Signing!
Celebrate the release of exhibition curator Caitlin McGurk’s Tell Me a Story Where the Bad Girl Wins: The Life and Art of Barbara Shermund (Fantagraphics, 2024). In her book, McGurk honors the life and art of pioneering cartoonist Barbara Shermund, whose career spanned the heyday of American magazines and helped shape the visual style of The New Yorker. Shermund lived an alternative lifestyle … Read More
Kid’s Day at The J with “Challah For Shabbat”
The Cleveland Jewish Book Festival is back for its 25th year! Join Sara Holly Ackerman for a kids’ day centered on her book, Challah For Shabbat! This sweet, rhyming, beautifully illustrated picture book celebrates Jewish joy and intergenerational love as it follows a girl and her grandmother preparing for Shabbat dinner by baking traditional challah from scratch. Join us for … Read More
Author Talk with Lauren Grodstein
The Cleveland Jewish Book Festival is back for its 25th year! Join Lauren Grodstein to discuss her book, We Must Not Think of Ourselves. A story inspired by a little-known piece of history in the lives of Jewish occupants of the Warsaw Ghetto in World War II, a project with the code name “Oneg Shabbat.” In 1940, Adam Paskow becomes … Read More
Author Talk with Yardena Schwartz
The Cleveland Jewish Book Festival is back for its 25th year! Join Yardena Schwartz to discuss her book, Ghosts of a Holy War. The 1929 massacre of the ancient Jewish community of Hebron was one of the most seminal events in the Arab-Israeli conflict–until October 7, 2023. One century apart, the echoes of 1929 in 2023 are key to understanding the complexities … Read More
History & Genealogy Day: Featuring Chief Glenna Wallace of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe
Columbus Metropolitan Library presents a full day of FREE genealogy and history activities on Saturday, Nov. 9. Complimentary boxed lunch included! They’ll welcome keynote speaker Chief Glenna Wallace to share her journey to reconnect the citizens of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma back to their historical homelands. Attend sessions and roundtables to learn research tips and bring your genealogy research questions to get help from Main … Read More
Defining American Liberty: New Perspectives on the Fort Gower Resolves
Join the Southeast Ohio History Center for a one-day conference commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Fort Gower Resolves! On November 5, 1774, six months before the first shots of the American Revolution were fired at Lexington and Concord, a group of Virginian officers who had served in Lord Dunmore’s Army gathered at Fort Gower, above the confluence of the … Read More