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NOVEMBER 2-17, 2013
atlantajcc.org/bookfestival
tickets: 678.812.4005
5342 Tilly Mill Road Dunwoody, GA 30338
FROM THE CO-CHAIRS OF THE 22ND EDITION
OF THE BOOK FESTIVAL OF THE MJCCA
We are pleased to welcome you to the 22nd Edition of the Book Festival of the
MJCCA – one of the South’s richest cultural events. Our Book Festival features
outstanding works from the year’s most sought-after and talked-about authors,
celebrities, and influencers. You are invited to meet them and celebrate their
contributions to Jewish and cultural life. From Pulitzer Prize and other award
winners, to journalists, historians, comedians, and attorneys, this Book Festival has
something for everyone.
In addition to the more than 30 exciting programs at this year’s Book Festival,
mark your calendars for our annual Family Reading Festival (for children up to age
6), Comedy Night at The Punchline featuring two exceptionally funny comedians,
and our Prologue event on October 24 with author and television personality, Brad
Meltzer.
Of course, the Book Festival of the MJCCA continues to dazzle us each year thanks
to the ongoing donor support of our Pacesetters, Patrons, and Sponsors. Without
their generosity, we would be unable to bring a literary arts event of this magnitude
to our community. As always, we urge you to support the Book Festival as either a
Patron or Corporate Sponsor, but please know that we are grateful for every single
ticket you purchase!
We hope you find this year’s Book Festival as exciting and fascinating as we do, and
look forward to seeing you in November. Thanks again for your support.
Happy reading,
Marcy Bass & Wendy Bearman
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us!
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THE FINE PRINT
• The presenters’ viewpoints and opinions are their own and should
not be attributed to those of MJCCA leadership or management.
• All sales are final. Festival tickets and book sales are non-refundable.
Due to circumstances beyond our control, programs may be subject
to substitution or rescheduling. Every effort will be made to replace
a cancelled author. The MJCCA is not liable for non-appearance of a
scheduled author. Programs are subject to change without notice.
Please call our Book Festival Hotline at 678.812.4005 or check
our website at atlantajcc.org/bookfestival for schedule updates and
announcements.
• In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, those
persons needing special accommodations to participate in Book
Festival programs should contact the MJCCA at 678.812.4005 no
later than four days prior to the program they wish to attend.
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Calling All Book Clubs!
Be A Book
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Jeff Stepakoff, The Melody of Secrets – 11.4
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Lily Koppel, The Astronaut Wives Club – 11.7
Phyllis Chesler, An American Bride in Kabul – 11.11
Dara Horn, A Guide to the Perplexed – 11.13
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Austin Ratner, In the Land of the Living – 11.13
Register your book club and receive special discounts on tickets and books.
Visit atlantajcc.org/bookfestival for details!
Project GIVE
Supports Amy’s
Holiday Party with
a TOY DRIVE!
• Drop new, wrapped toys off at the MJCCA
Front Desk, 9/3-11/18.
• Gift price range: $10 - 14.
• Suggested donations: dolls, sporting goods,
games, makeup kits, trucks, and cars.
• Please, NO battery-operated gifts or
toy weapons.
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For more information, please contact Lauren Berger at
678.812.3984
or lauren.berger@atlantajcc.org
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of the MJCCA Presents
Brad
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Kids 12-18
welcome!
(free)
History Decoded:
The 10 Greatest
Conspiracies of All Time
OCTOBER 24
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Member: $13 " Community: $18
PM
It’s an irresistible combination: Brad Meltzer, a born storyteller, counting
down the world’s most intriguing unsolved mysteries. Adapted from
Decoded, Meltzer’s hit show on the History channel, History Decoded
explores fascinating, unexplained questions:
• Is Fort Knox empty?
• Why was Hitler so intent on capturing the Roman “Spear of Destiny”?
• What’s the government hiding in Area 51?
• And did Lee Harvey Oswald really act alone?
Meltzer sifts through the evidence; weighs competing theories; separates
what we know to be true with what’s still—and perhaps forever—
unproved or improvable; and in the end, decodes the mystery, arriving at
the most likely solution.
Bound in at the beginning of each story is a custom-designed
envelope—a faux 19th-century leather satchel, a U.S. government
classified file—containing facsimiles of relevant evidence: John Wilkes
Booth’s alleged unsigned will, a map of the Vatican, Kennedy’s death
certificate. The whole book is a riveting, interactive adventure through the
compelling world of mysteries and conspiracies.
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saturday
NOVEMBER 2
Presented by
8:15 pm | Legal Eagle
SCOTT
TUROW
Identical: A Novel
Member: $18 • Community: $24
opening
night
Identical, based loosely on the myth of Castor
and Pollux, is the story of identical twins
Paul and Cass Giannis and the complex
relationships between their family and their
former neighbors, the Kronons. The novel
focuses principally on events in 2008, when
Paul is a candidate for Mayor of Kindle
County, and Cass is released from the
penitentiary, 25 years after pleading guilty to
the murder of his girlfriend, Athena Kronon.
The plot centers on the re-investigation
of Athena’s murder. The complex web of
murder, sex, and betrayal – as only Scott
Turow could weave – dramatically unfolds,
and the chilling truth is revealed
Scott Turow is the author of nine bestselling works of fiction including Innocent,
Presumed Innocent and The Burden of
Proof. His books have been translated into
more than 25 languages, sold more than 25
million copies worldwide, and have been
adapted into film and television projects.
He frequently contributes essays and op-ed
pieces to publications such as The New York
Times, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The New
Yorker, Playboy, and The Atlantic.
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sunday
NOVEMBER 3
1:00 pm | FORBIDDEN LOVE
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Presented by the Consulate General of Israel
to the Southeast
Naomi Ragen has lived in Jerusalem for the past forty years and
was voted one of the three most popular authors in Israel. In
this, her eighth novel, she tells the story of sisters, growing up
in a loving but strict ultra-Orthodox family in 1950s Brooklyn.
never dreaming of defying their parents or their community’s
unbending demands. Then, a chance meeting with a young
French immigrant turns Rose’s world upside down. The Sisters
Weiss is an unforgettable examination of loyalty and betrayal;
and the differences that can tear a family apart, and the invisible
bonds that tie them together.
4:30 pm | SUPER JEW
LARRY TYE
Superman: The High-Flying History
of America’s Most Enduring Hero
Children (up to age 18) free!
It wasn’t just his creators and publishers who were Jewish.
Superman was, too. The evidence is everywhere—from his
Kryptonian name, Kal-El, which in Hebrew means vessel of
God, to an origin story straight out of Exodus of parents who
save their first-born by floating him off to a safe place, where
he is adopted by gentiles who slowly realize how extraordinary
he is. And what better way to start out your festival than with
an emphatically upbeat story that grandparents can enjoy with
their kids and grandkids?
7:30 pm | YOUR SPIRIT GUIDE
Rebecca Rosen
Awaken the Spirit Within: 10 Steps to Ignite
Your Life and Fulfill Your Divine Purpose
In Awaken the Spirit Within, acclaimed author and spiritual
medium Rebecca Rosen offers us an inspired and invigorating
prescriptive program to give our lives clarity and deeper
meaning, helping us to “wake up” and start living our lives with
divine intention and purpose. Rebecca’s broad appeal and
healing message have led to national media appearances on Dr. Phil, Entertainment Tonight, Extra, and Nightline.
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monday
12:00 pm | LIT FOR LUNCH
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JEFFREY STEPAKOFF
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Richly drawn and sharply observed, A Nearly Perfect
Copy is a smart and affecting novel of family and
forgery set amidst the rarefied international art world.
Elm Howells has a loving family and a distinguished
career at an elite Manhattan auction house. But after
a tragic loss throws her into an emotional crisis, she
pursues a reckless course of action that jeopardizes
her personal and professional success. Meanwhile,
talented artist Gabriel Connois embarks on a scheme
that threatens his reputation. As these narratives
converge, with disastrous consequences, A Nearly
Perfect Copy boldly challenges our presumptions
about originality and authenticity, loss and
replacement, and the perilous pursuit of perfection.
Maria was barely eighteen when WWII was coming
to its explosive end. A brilliant violinist, she tries
to comfort herself with the Sibelius Concerto as
American bombs rain down. James Cooper, wasn’t
much older. A roguish fighter pilot stationed in
London, he was shot down in a daring night raid and
seeks shelter in Maria’s cottage.
Fifteen years later in Huntsville, Alabama, Maria is
married to a German rocket scientist who works for
the burgeoning US Space Program. Everything is as
it should be —until James Cooper now at the front of
the line for the astronaut program, walks back into it.
Cooper soon realizes that his job is not only to report
on the rocket engines, but also on the scientists
developing them. Then he learns the secrets that
could shatter Maria’s world.
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NOVEMBER 4
7:00 pm | Besser Holocaust Memorial Kristallnacht Commemoration
Kristallnacht DAY OF
REMEMBERANCE
Join us for a beautiful and moving ceremony at the
Besser Holocaust Memorial Garden commemorating
one of the most horrific nights in our history—
Kristallnacht.
75th Anniversary
of Kristallnacht
Esther G. Levine Community Read
Created to honor longtime Book Festival volunteer,
Esther Levine, the Community Read is intended to
speak to the entire community regardless of religious
affiliation, organizational mission, or political affiliation.
7:30 pm
HARRY ROSENFELD
From Kristallnacht to Watergate:
Memoirs of a Newspaperman
In his evocative memoir, Harry Rosenfeld tells of
growing up in Hitler’s Berlin, where as a nine-year-old
boy he saw his father taken away by the Gestapo
and witnessed the burning of his synagogue on
Kristallnacht, the prelude to the Holocaust. His family
found refuge in America, and Rosenfeld grew up to
become a hard-driving editor at The New York Herald
Tribune and The Washington Post. As The Post’s
Metropolitan Editor, he was in charge of the paper’s
Watergate exposé and the boss of Bob Woodward
and Carl Bernstein.
Media Sponsor:
In Conversation
with Publisher/
Executive Director,
Samuel Norich,
The Forward
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tuesday
NOVEMBER 5
7:30 pm | ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN
A. SCOTT BERG
Wilson
From the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning
author A. Scott Berg comes Wilson—the result
of over a decade of research and writing, is the
definitive and revelatory biography of one of the
greatest and most influential American figures of
the 20th century. Berg was the first biographer to
gain access to two caches of papers that have only
recently been discovered—significant collections of
personal letters of both Wilson’s daughter and his
personal physician.
Wilson is an intimate portrait written with a
particularly contemporary point of view—a book at
once magisterial and deeply emotional about the
whole of Wilson’s life, accomplishments, and failings.
This is not just Wilson the icon—but Wilson the
man. This year marks the 100th anniversary of
Wilson’s inauguration.
GREGORY J. WALLANCE
America’s Soul in the Balance: The
Holocaust, FDR’s State Department,
and the Moral Disgrace of an American
Aristocracy
At the height of World War II, four lawyers in the
U.S. Treasury Department discovered that the
highly-educated, patrician diplomats in FDR’s State
Department had covered up reports of the Nazi
scheme to exterminate European Jewry—and then
blocked the rescue of 70,000 Romanian Jews forcibly
marched into Transnistria in the Nazi-conquered
Ukraine and left to die of starvation, disease, and
sheer exhaustion. The Treasury lawyers charged the
diplomats with being “accomplices of Hitler.” This is
their story.
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Pulitzer Prizewinning author of
Lindbergh
wednesday
NOVEMBER 6
12:30 pm | NAZI NIGHTMARE
THOMAS HARDING
Hanns and Rudolf: The True Story of the
German Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught
the Kommandant of Auschwitz
Part history, part biography, part true crime, Hanns and
Rudolf chronicles the untold story of British Lieutenant Hanns
Alexander, one of the lead Jewish investigators for the first
British War Crimes Investigation Team (and the author’s
uncle), who pursued and captured one of Nazi Germany’s
most notorious war criminals, Rudolf Höss. As Kommandant
of Auschwitz, Höss not only oversaw the murder of more than
one million men, women, and children, but was the man who
perfected Hitler’s program of mass extermination.
6:30 pm | TV DINNER
ALLEN SALKIN
From Scratch: Inside the Tumultuous
Billion-Dollar World of the Food Network
From New York Times journalist Allen Salkin comes a tale of
big personalities, high drama, and the extraordinary behindthe-scenes story of the Food Network, the business, media,
and cultural juggernaut that changed the way America thinks
about food. Based upon extensive inside access, documents,
and interviews with hundreds of executives, stars, and
employees, Salkin’s book is an exhilarating rollercoaster ride
from chaos to conquest. This is an irresistible story of the
intersection between business, television, pop culture,
pampamfood—and us.
8:15 PM | Be Clark Smart
CLARK HOWARD
Clark Howard’s Living Large for the Long Haul
Clark Howard’s Living Large for the Long Haul offers
no-nonsense financial tips for achieving lifelong prosperity.
The renowned broadcaster examines those whose financial
portfolios have beaten the odds, and those whose economic
situation has gone off course. Through these fascinating
personal accounts, readers uncover amazing opportunities
and smart decisions, finding advantages in bleak times for
lasting payoffs in the long run.
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thursday
NOVEMBER 7
10:30 am | BOOKS FOR BREAKFAST
CLIFF GRAUBART
The Curious Vision of Sammy
Levitt and Other Stories
FREE
Free to the Community
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In The Curious Vision of Sammy Levitt and Other
Stories, first-time novelist Cliff Graubart writes a
humorous and touching tale of the 1950s Washington
Heights Jewish life. Sammy Levitt, about to become
the first bar mitzvah in the new synagogue, sees
an image that threatens to bring him unwelcome
celebrity. Can the hopes of a priest and rabbi keep
the community from exploding? A brother’s quest for
truth sets the stage in “Who Cries for Aaron” where a
young boy travels to Italy fulfilling a lifelong promise.
An unexpected story of love in the “Yiddish Theater”
presents the success and failure experienced
by Jewish immigrants. Woven together by Cliff
Graubart’s fresh, authentic voice, they document the
American Jewish experience.
The Astronaut Wives Club: A True Story
From The New York Times bestselling author of The
Red Leather Diary comes The Astronaut Wives Club,
the real story of the women who stood beside some
of the biggest heroes in American history.
As America’s Mercury Seven astronauts were
launched on death-defying missions, television
cameras focused on the brave smiles of their young
wives. Overnight, these women were transformed
from military spouses into American royalty. They had
tea with Jackie Kennedy, appeared on the cover of
Life magazine, and quickly grew into fashion icons.
They formed The Astronaut Wives Club, meeting
regularly to provide support and friendship. Many
became next-door neighbors and helped to raise
each other’s children by day, while going to glam
parties by night as the country raced to land a man
on the moon. As their celebrity rose and as divorce
and tragic death began to touch their lives, they
continued to rally together, and have now been
friends for more than fifty years.
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Featuring Special
Guest Clare
Whitfield, Apollo 9
Astro-Wife
Patron/Sponsor
Night!
Presented by
7:30 pm | THE SUPREMES
JEFFREY
TOOBIN
The Oath: The Obama White
House and The Supreme Court
A Washington Post
Notable Work of
Nonfiction
From the moment Chief Justice Roberts
botched Barack Obama’s oath of office, the
relationship between the Court and the White
House has been a fraught one. Grappling
with issues as diverse as campaign finance,
abortion, and the right to bear arms, the
Roberts court has put itself squarely at the
center of American political life. Jeffrey Toobin
brilliantly portrays key personalities and cases
and shows how the president was disastrously
slow to realize the importance of the judicial
branch to his agenda. Combining incisive legal
analysis with riveting insider details, The Oath
is an essential guide to understanding the
Supreme Court of our interesting times.
Jeffrey Toobin is a staff writer at The New
Yorker, senior legal analyst at CNN, and a New
York Times bestselling author. A magna cum
laude graduate of Harvard Law School, he lives
with his family in New York.
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friday
NOVEMBER 8
12:00 pm | WELL-SPOKEN
LETTY COTTIN POGREBIN
How to be a Friend to a Friend
Who’s Sick
Throughout her recent bout with breast cancer, Ms.
Magazine founder, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, became
fascinated by her friends’ and family’s diverse
reactions to her and her illness: how awkwardly
some of them behaved; how some misspoke or
misinterpreted her needs; and how wonderful it was
when people read her right. She began talking to
her fellow patients and dozens of other veterans of
serious illness, seeking to discover what sick people
wished their friends knew about how best to comfort,
help, and simply talk to them.
Pogrebin has distilled their collective stories and
opinions into this wide-ranging compendium of
pragmatic guidance and usable wisdom. How to
Be a Friend to a Friend Who’s Sick is an invaluable
guidebook for anyone hoping to rise to the challenges
of this most important and demanding passage
of friendship.
Founder of
Ms. Magazine
Give the
Gift of
Books
VISIT OUR ON-SITE BOOKSTORE AT THE
MJCCA DURING THE BOOK FESTIVAL
www.acappellabooks.com
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saturday
NOVEMBER 9
Presented by
8:00 pm | LOVE ACTUALLY
Elin Hilderbrand
Beautiful Day
Elin Hilderbrand, whose following spans the globe, writes quintessential “beach reads”
that are just as exciting in the off-season as they are during the summer. With Beautiful
Day, her twelfth novel, she brings together two families, the Carmichaels and the
Grahams, for a Nantucket wedding. Plans are being made according to the wishes of the
bride’s late mother, who left behind The Notebook: specific instructions for every detail
of her youngest daughter’s future nuptials. Everything should be falling into place for
the beautiful event – but in reality, things are far from perfect. In the days leading up to
the wedding, love will be questioned, scandals will arise, and hearts will be broken and
healed. Elin Hilderbrand takes readers on a touching journey in Beautiful Day –
into the heart of marriage, what it means to be faithful, and how we choose to honor
our commitments.
Wendy Wax
While We Were Watching
Downton Abbey
The fervor surrounding the British television drama
Downton Abbey sets the stage for Wendy Wax’s funny,
smart and heartwarming book about four unlikely friends
with a shared passion for watching this wildly popular
drawing room drama.
When the concierge of The Alexander, a historic Atlanta
apartment building, invites his fellow residents to join
him for weekly screenings of Downton Abbey, these four
very different people find themselves connecting with the
addictive show, and—even more unexpectedly—with
each other.
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sunday
NOVEMBER 10
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
For Children Ages 6 Months - 6 years old!
presented by
Tickets:
Member Child: $7 • Community Child: $10
Parents and children under the age of six months
are free.
Mainstage Activities:
CHEER with the Atlanta Hawks
Cheerleaders!
SING with Rabbi Brian Glusman and
the Shabbat Dinosaur!
Shalom Baby Presents
Chanukah for Little Hands
DANCE with Miss Erin!
(For children 18 months and younger and
their families)
FLIP OUT with the Little Sparks
Gymnastics Exhibition Team!
Sophie Hirsh Srochi Discovery Center
Paint your own pottery and make your child’s
handprints into a menorah for a memorable
Chanukah gift. Toys and books provided for
extra fun! The first piece of pottery is free.
Extra pieces of pottery are available for a
nominal charge.
PJ Library® will be giving away the book,
Welcome Song for Baby, while supplies last.
Get Ready, Get Set, Go
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sponsored by
JUMP on the inflatables in the
Blank Gym!
The Peace Room Kidzone is exclusively
for families who need a place to relax. Peace
Room children will enjoy storytime led by
KidZone staff, and discover a wonderful place
where they can have quiet play time.
Family Reading Festival:
Co-Chairs: Jodi Halpert & Alexis Solomon
Vice-Chairs: Renee Harris & Erica Kuniansky
The following programs will be repeated several times during the Family
Reading Festival. All book programs will include a hands-on activity.
Featuring fun interactive activities with these
great books:
It’s A Mitzvah, Grover!
by Tilda Balsley and Ellen Fischer
It’s a Mitzvah, Grover! entertains children with beloved
Sesame Street characters, while educating them about
Jewish values.
Thank You, Trees by Marilyn Gootman*
Share in the joy and fun of Tu B’Shevat, the birthday of the
trees, by giving thanks for the many wonderful things trees
give us. Marilyn will join the children in hands-on activities to
create a stimulating, dynamic, and eco-friendly program for
young children and their caretakers.
Shabbat in The Playroom by Galia Sabbag*
Join author and Davis Academy teacher Galia Shabbag
as she and her lovable character Shira celebrate Shabbat!
Shira’s stories are spellbinding and filled with Hebrew words,
songs, greetings, and blessings.
Sadie’s Almost Marvelous Menorah
by Rabbi Jamie Korngold
When Sadie runs to show her mother the Chanukah menorah
she made in preschool, she trips, the menorah shatters, and
she is devastated. But when she finds that the shammash is
unbroken, a new family tradition is born.
Jewish Fairy Tale Feasts: A Literary Cookbook
by Jane Yolen and Heidi Stemple
Enjoy dynamic, enchanting retellings of Jewish tales from
around the world while sampling delicious Jewish food.
PJ Library® Presents The Shema in the
Mezuzah: Listening to Each Other
by Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso
This lively tale, based on a twelfth-century rabbinic debate,
introduces children ages 3 to 6 to the words of the Shema,
and to the custom of putting up the mezuzah. A spirited
disagreement over how to affix the mezuzah results in
compromise and harmony when the townspeople learn to
truly listen to one another.
* Attending
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1:00 pm Naomi Ragen,
The Sisters Weiss
4:30 pm Larry Tye,
Superman
7:30 pm Rebecca Rosen,
Awaken the Spirit
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10:00 am
Family Reading Festival
4:30 pm TK Thorne,
Last Chance for Justice
Jim T. Barfield,
Boxcars
Lee Katz,
How Not to Hire a Guy Like Me
12:00 pm Allison Amend,
A Nearly Perfect Copy
Jeff Stepakoff,
The Melody of Secrets
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7:30 pm A. Scott Berg,
Wilson
Gregory J. Wallance,
America’s Soul in the Balance
12:30 pm Thom
Hanns and Rudo
7:00 pm
Kristallnacht Commemoration
7:30 pm
EGL Community Read:
Harry Rosenfeld,
From Kristallnacht to Watergate
Election Day
6:30 pm Allen S
From Scratch: In
Network
8:15 pm Clark
Clark Howard’s
for the Long Ha
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12:00 pm Phyllis Chesler,
An American Bride in Kabul
12:00 pm Jane Weitzman,
Art & Sole
7:30 pm Sheri Fink,
Five Days at Memorial
7:30 pm Matthew Levitt,
Hezbollah
@ The Temple
12:00 pm Dara
A Guide for the
Austin Ratner,
In the Land of th
7:30 pm Ben U
The Collaboratio
Hollywood's Pa
7:30 pm Chris Matthews,
Tip and the Gipper
17 2:00 pm Lynn Povich,
Experience the Book Festival the high-tech
way; download the Guidebook app from
the App or Play Store and search for the
“MJCCA Book Festival” guide.
The Good Girls Revolt!
Lori Rotskoff,
When We Were Free to Be
4:30 pm Robert Weintraub,
The Victory Season
Larry Ruttman,
American Jews and America’s Game
John Rosengren,
Hank Greenberg
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7:30 pm Pat Conroy,
The Death of Santini
Closing Night
Book Club Pick
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OCT
Alternate Location
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NESDAY
THURSDAY
OCTOBER 24
FRIDAY
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SATURDAY
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8:15 pm Scott Turow,
Identical
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Brad Meltzer,
History Decoded: 10
Greatest Conspiracies
of All Time
Opening Night
Prologue
mas Harding,
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Salkin
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Howard
Living Large
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Perplexed
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act With Hitler
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10:30 am Cliff Graubart,
Curious Vision of Sammy
Levitt…
12:00 pm Letty Cottin
Pogrebin,
How to be a Friend to a Friend
Who’s Sick
8:00 pm Elin Hilderbrand,
Beautiful Day
Wendy Wax,
While We Were Watching
Downton Abbey
12:30 pm Lily Koppel,
The Astronaut Wives Club: A
True Story
7:30 pm Jeffrey Toobin,
The Oath
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10:30 am Jeff Clemmons,
Rich’s: A Southern Institution
12:00 pm Andrea P. Lustig,
How to Look Expensive
12:30 pm Ronald Balson,
Once We Were Brothers
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8:00 pm
The Eva Stern Lecture:
Alan Dershowitz,
Taking the Stand: My Life in
the Law
8:00 pm Fred Stoller,
Maybe We’ll Have You Back
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sunday
NOVEMBER 10
4:30 pm | Southern Writers’ Showcase
Moderated by Atlanta Writers’ Academy
T.K. THORNE
FREE
Last Chance for Justice: How Relentless
Investigators Uncovered
New Evidence Convicting the
Birmingham Church Bombers
T.K. Thorne, the first female Jewish police officer in
the Birmingham Police Department, tells the inside
story of one of the most infamous crimes of the civil
rights era. Her account divulges the ins and outs of
the investigation led by Detective Ben Herren and FBI
Special Agent Bill Fleming. For more than a year, they
analyzed the original FBI files on the bombing and
activities of the Ku Klux Klan, then began a search for
new evidence. Their first interview—with Klansman
Bobby Frank Cherry—broke open the case, but not in
the way they expected.
Featuring an acoustic
performance of two original
songs written for the
characters in Boxcars
JIM T. BARFIELD
Boxcars
In May 1944, a Jewish teenager’s career as a
promising violinist has been derailed, and he is on
the run from the Nazis. At the same time, a Romani
teenage prisoner at Auschwitz, who the famously
sadistic Dr. Mengele refers to as “that Gypsy waif,”
escapes from a Nazi medical experiment and
attempts to make her way back to France. The two
teens are destined to meet under such circumstances
that their lives become desperately entangled.
LEE N. KATZ
How Not to Hire A Guy Like Me: Lessons
Learned from CEOs’ Mistakes
This is the first book by MJCCA Governance Board
member and turnaround veteran, Lee N. Katz. Filled
with poignant wisdom, hilarious stories, and sound
business advice from a man who’s seen it all, this
book will teach you time and again how to avoid the
ruinous mistakes that so many CEOs make.
not
How to Hire
A Guy Like Me
Lessons Learned from CEOs’ Mistakes
Lee N. Katz
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Presented by David
L. Halpern
CHRIS
MATTHEWS
Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked
8:00 PM
sunday
NOVEMBER 10
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Jack Kennedy—and Tip O’Neill’s
former chief-of-staff—comes the firsthand, one-of-a-kind story of the friendship between
President Reagan and the Speaker of the House.
They were the political odd couple—the two most powerful men in the country, a pair
who, in author Chris Matthews’s words, “couldn’t be more different or more the same.”
For six years Matthews was on the inside, watching the evolving relationship between
President Ronald Reagan and Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill. Their philosophies were
miles apart—Reagan intent on scaling back government, O’Neill fervent in defending
it. Yet there was common ground too: long lunches shared on St. Patrick’s Day and
a mutual respect—political and personal. Drawing not only on his own remarkable
knowledge but on extensive interviews with those closest to his subjects, Matthews
brings this unlikely friendship to life in his unique voice, offering us a timely object lesson
in how bipartisan cooperation can work.
Chris Matthews is anchor of MSNBC’s Hardball as well as the NBC-syndicated The
Chris Matthews Show. He is an author of American; Now, Let Me Tell You What I Really
Think; and Kennedy and Nixon.
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monday
NOVEMBER 11
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12:00 pm | NOT-SO HAPPILY EVER AFTER
In 1961, Phyllis Chesler arrived in Kabul with her Afghan
bridegroom. Authorities immediately took away her
American passport, making her the property of her
husband’s family, with no rights of citizenship. Her
husband, a wealthy, westernized foreign college student,
reverted to traditional and tribal customs, and Chesler
found herself unexpectedly trapped in a harem family,
with no chance of escape. She fought against her lack of
freedom, her Afghan family’s attempts to convert her from
Judaism to Islam, and her husband’s wish to permanently
tie her to the country through childbirth.
Drawing upon her personal diaries, Chesler recounts her
ordeal, the nature of gender apartheid, and her longing
to explore this beautiful, ancient, and exotic country and
culture. Chesler nearly died there, but she managed to
get out and became an author and an ardent activist for
women’s rights throughout the world.
7:30 pm | ETHICAL DILEMMAS
SHERI FINK
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a
Storm-Ravaged Hospital
In Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death In A StormRavaged Hospital, physician and reporter Sheri Fink
reconstructs five days at New Orleans’ Memorial Medical
Center and draws the reader into the lives of the doctors
and nurses who struggled to preserve life amidst
chaos. After Hurricane Katrina destroyed the generators
that make 21st century medicine possible, patients
at Memorial were wholly at the mercy of caregivers
forced to make decisions about whose lives could be
preserved and who would most likely die in the face
of serious illness and limited medical care. The result
was an almost unthinkable tragedy, as several health
professionals deliberately injected severely ill
patients with drugs to hasten their deaths.
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In Conversation With
Elizabeth Cohen,
CNN Senior Medical
Correspondent
tuesday
NOVEMBER 12
12:00 pm | SHOE BIZ
JANE WEITZMAN
Art & Sole A Spectacular Selection of
More Than 150 Fantasy Art Shoes from
the Stuart Weitzman Collection
Not meant to be worn, art shoes are pure fantasy,
constructed of unique materials in various shapes
and silhouettes. The art shoes in the Stuart Weitzman
collection are made from a vast array of materials—
feathers, paper, ceramic, metal, resin, playing cards,
corrugated cardboard, Swarovski crystals, even fresh
flowers and frosting—and their intricate construction
and imagination is remarkable. Art & Sole features,
in printed form for the first time, Jane Weitzman’s
selection of the best of this collection, approximately
150 shoes of the more than 1,000 she has discovered
and commissioned for display since the first Stuart
Weitzman retail shop opened in the mid-1990s on
Madison Avenue.
7:30 pm | TERROR THREAT
MATTHEW LEVITT
Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of
Lebanon’s Party of God
The Temple: 1589 Peachtree St. NE,
Atlanta, GA 30309
Hezbollah—Lebanon’s “Party of God”—is a
multifaceted organization: It is a powerful political
party in Lebanon, a Shia Islam religious and social
movement, Lebanon’s largest militia, a close
ally of Iran, and a terrorist organization. Drawing
on a wide range of sources, including recently
declassified government documents, court
records, and personal interviews with intelligence
and law enforcement officials around the world,
Matthew Levitt examines Hezbollah’s beginnings,
its first violent forays targeting Western interests
in Lebanon, and its terrorist activities and criminal
enterprises abroad in Europe, the Middle East,
South America, Southeast Asia, Africa, and
North America.
In Conversation With
Dr. Ken Stein,
Emory University
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wednesday
NOVEMBER 13
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A Guide for the Perplexed: A Novel
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In the Land of the Living: A Novel
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Dara Horn’s thrilling new novel explores how memory
shapes the soul. Software prodigy Josie Ashkenazi
has invented a program that records everything its
users do. When an Egyptian library invites her to visit
as a consultant, her jealous sister Judith persuades
her to go. But in Egypt, Josie is kidnapped--leaving
Judith free to usurp her sister’s life. Intertwined with
the contemporary plot are the true stories of two
historic figures: Solomon Schechter and Moses
Maimonides, the rabbi and physician who wrote
the seminal A Guide for the Perplexed in the
12th century.
In the Land of the Living is a dazzling story of
fathers, sons, and brothers who are bound by love,
and divided by history. The Auberons are a lovably
neurotic family who love and hate each other – and
themselves – in equal measure. Part family saga,
part coming-of-age story, In the Land of the Living is
a fresh, bawdy yet earnest novel about coping with
death, and figuring out how and why to live.
7:30 pm | Lights! Camera! Inaction!
Ben Urwand
The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact
with Hitler
Readers will be fascinated by the astonishing story of
Hollywood’s dealings with Nazi Germany, told here
for the first time. Drawing upon secret documents
(including Hitler’s own notes on American movies)
uncovered during his nine-year-long investigation
at archives in Germany and the U.S., Ben Urwand
reveals that in order to keep the German market open
for their films, Hollywood studios (many headed by
Jews) followed the instructions of the Nazi German
consul in Los Angeles, abandoning or changing
movies that would have exposed the horrors of
Nazism and Germany’s persecution of the Jews. The
Collaboration raises the curtain on a hidden episode
in Hollywood--and American--history.
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Winner of the 2011
Sami Rohr Prize for
Jewish Literature
thursday
NOVEMBER 14
10:30 am | A RICH TRADITION
JEFF CLEMMONS
Rich’s: A Southern Institution
FREE
In 1867, less than three years after the Civil War left
the city in ruins, Hungarian Jewish immigrant Morris
Rich opened a small dry goods store on what is now
Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta. Over time, his
brothers Emanuel and Daniel joined the business;
within a century, it became a retail dynasty. Join
historian Jeff Clemmons as he traces Rich’s 137-year
history. For the first time, learn the true stories behind
Penelope Penn, Fashionata, the Great Tree, the Pink
Pig, Rich’s famous coconut cake, and much more,
including how events at the downtown Atlanta store
helped John F. Kennedy become America’s thirtyfifth president. With an eye for accuracy and exacting
detail, Clemmons recounts the complete history of
this treasured southern institution.
12:30 PM | IS HE OR ISN’T HE?
RONALD H. BALSON
Once We Were Brothers
In Once We Were Brothers, Elliot Rosenzweig, a
respected civic leader and wealthy philanthropist, is
attending a fundraiser when he is suddenly accosted
and accused of being a former Nazi SS officer named
Otto Piatek, “the butcher of Zamosc.” Although the
charges are denounced as preposterous, his accuser,
Ben Solomon, is convinced he is right. Solomon
persuades attorney Catherine Lockhart to take his
case, revealing that the true Piatek was abandoned
as a child and raised by Solomon’s family only to
betray them during the Nazi Occupation. But has he
accused the right man?
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thursday
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(Doors Open at 7:oo pm)
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Atlanta, GA 30328
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NOVEMBER 14
Comedy Night
at the Punchline
Hosted by
Holly Firfer and
Tom Sullivan
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MARION GRODIN
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Standing Up: A Memoir of a Funny
(Not Always) Life
In the spirit of Carrie Fisher’s Wishful Drinking and Chelsea
Handler’s Chelsea, Chelsea Bang, Bang, comes Marion
Grodin’s hilarious memoir of a Hollywood childhood,
teenage years of drugs and sex, and sober adult life on
the stand-up circuit. Marion Grodin, daughter of funnyman
Charles Grodin, knows firsthand that laughter is truly the
best medicine, having not only survived breast cancer
and divorce, but also, various addictions—including an
inappropriate relationship with Haagen Dazs.
FRED STOLLER
Maybe We’ll Have You Back: The Life of a
Perennial TV Guest Star
Fred Stoller has played the annoying schnook in just about
every sitcom you’ve seen on TV—“Friends,” “Everybody
Loves Raymond,” “Scrubs,” “My Name Is Earl”—and was
even a staff writer for “Seinfeld,” but he’s never found
a solid gig. When it comes to Hollywood, it’s a case of
always the bridesmaid and never the bride, except in his
case he’s always the snarky waiter, the mopey cousin, or
Man #2. This hilarious and bittersweet rags-to-rags story
of the hardest-working guy in showbiz follows Stoller, who
started his career as a stand-up comic, from set
to set as he tries to find a permanent home for his
oddball character.
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friday
NOVEMBER 15
12:00 pm | GLAMOUR DOs
ANDREA POMERANTZ
LUSTIG
How To Look Expensive: A Beauty Editor’s
Secrets to Getting Gorgeous Without Breaking
the Bank
Andrea Pomerantz Lustig is known around the offices of
Glamour magazine as the “Beauty Sleuth,” thanks to the
popular beauty column and articles she has written for the
magazine for the last decade. In How to Look Expensive, she
combines her own experience with coveted secrets she’s
learned from the experts to help readers achieve red-carpet
looks without putting them in the red. Tips include: how to get
expensive-looking hair color at an inexpensive salon, super-luxe
DIY skincare cocktails for less than $20, the cheap cosmetic
secrets of expensive makeup artists, and tips for princessperfect skin on a pauper’s budget.
mark
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Legendary Jazz Artist
BEN SIDRAN
April 10
7:30 pm Jazz at the JCC
Performance & Book Talk:
There was a Fire: Jews, Music, andNOVEMBER
the American Dream
thursday
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April Author-in-Residence
Ann
Kirschner
(author of Sala’s Gift and Lady at the OK Corral)
April 27 • 4:00 pm Guest Speaker: Yom Hashoah Commemoration at the
Besser Holocaust Memorial Garden
7:00 pm Special Guest Appearance at “Letters to Sala”
April 28 • 7:30 pm Book Talk and Signing: Lady at the OK Corral: The True
Story of Josephine Marcus Earp
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saturday
NOVEMBER 16
The Eva Stern Lecture
Presented by the George Stern
Family in Loving Memory of
Eva Prager Stern
Presented by
8:00 pm | LAWMAN
ALAN
DERSHOWITZ
Taking the Stand:
My Life in the Law
America’s most prominent legal mind and the #1 bestselling author of Chutzpah and
The Best Defense, Alan Dershowitz, recounts his legal autobiography, describing how
he came to the law, as well as the cases that have changed American jurisprudence
over the past 50 years, most of which he has personally been involved in.
In Taking the Stand, Dershowitz reveals the evolution of his own thinking on such
fundamental issues as censorship and the First Amendment, civil rights, abortion,
homicide and the increasing role that science plays in legal defense.
Dershowitz, the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard University, describes his
academic struggles at Yeshiva High School in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, his successes
at Yale, clerking for Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, and his appointment to
full professor at Harvard at age 28, the youngest in the school’s history. Dershowitz has
worked on many high-profile cases, including successfully appealing Claus Von Bulow’s
conviction for the murder of his wife Happy, the O.J. Simpson trial, defending Mike
Tyson, Leona Helmsley, Patty Hearst, and countless others. He is currently part of the
legal team advising Julian Assange.
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sunday
NOVEMBER 17
1:00 pm | WOMEN ON TOP
LYNN POVICH
The Good Girls Revolt! How the Women
of Newsweek Sued Their Bosses and
Changed the Workplace
Lynn Povich, the first female senior editor in the
history of Newsweek, tells the unknown story of a
landmark sex discrimination suit brought by 46 young
women at Newsweek against the magazine in 1970.
She also discusses civil rights, as well as what has
and hasn’t changed for women in the workplace
today. The Good Girls Revolt also explores why
changes in the law didn’t solve everything. Through
the lives of young female journalists at Newsweek
today, Povich explores what progress has been
made for women at work.
LORI ROTSKOFF
When We Were Free to Be: Looking
Back at a Children’s Classic and the
Difference it Made
If you grew up or raised children during the era of
mood rings and lava lamps, you probably remember
Free to Be . . .You and Me—the groundbreaking
children’s record, book, and television special
that debuted in 1972. Conceived by actress
Marlo Thomas and promoted by Ms. Magazine, it
inspired generations of girls and boys to challenge
stereotypes, value cooperation, respect diversity, and
reach for any dream.
In this lively collection, 32 contributors explore the
creation and legacy of this classic. The book offers
an insiders’ account of Free to Be’s history by the
original creators, activists, and educators who
changed the landscape of childhood nationwide.
Many were Jewish women at the forefront of the
women’s movement, including Letty Cottin Pogrebin
and Gloria Steinem.
Sing along with
your favorite
“Free to Be” songs!
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sunday
NOVEMBER 17
4:30 pm | THE BIG LEAGUES
ROBERT WEINTRAUB
The Victory Season: World War II, the
Homecoming, and the Birth of Baseball’s
Golden Age
In the spring of 1946, Americans were ready to heal.
WWII was finally over, and hundreds of players, including
stars like Ted Williams, Stan Musial, and Joe DiMaggio
returned home to get back to baseball. A new era
dawned, as Jackie Robinson made his professional
debut.
In The Victory Season, Robert Weintraub brings to life
little-known tales of ballplayers at war. Of special note
is the first description in book form of a “World Series”
played among European Theater troops. The games
were played at the conquered Hitler Youth Stadium in
Nuremberg, where the Nazis had rallied until the Yanks
took over.
JOHN ROSENGREN
Hank Greenberg: The Hero of Heroes
Delving into the life and career of America’s first Jewish
superstar, author John Rosengren brings us a definitive
portrait of a man who overcame the prejudices of a world
in turmoil to achieve baseball immortality and become a
hero to a generation of Jewish Americans. As an outsider
who rose to the top of the nation’s quintessential game,
no one represents the American experience quite like
Greenberg.
LARRY RUTTMAN
American Jews and America’s Game:
Voices of a Growing Legacy in Baseball
The Jewish presence in baseball extends beyond a few
famous players such as Greenberg, Rosen, Koufax,
Holtzman, Green, and Youkilis. In fact, that presence
extends to the baseball commissioner Bud Selig, labor
leaders Marvin Miller and Don Fehr, owners Jerry
Reinsdorf and Stuart Sternberg, officials Theo Epstein
and Mark Shapiro, sportswriters Murray Chass, Ira
Berkow, and Roger Kahn, and even famous Jewish
baseball fans like Alan Dershowitz and Barney Frank.
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Presented by
PAT CONROY
The Death of Santini
8:00 PM
sunday
NOVEMBER 17
In this powerful and intimate new memoir, The Death of Santini, Pat Conroy - the
beloved bestselling author of The Prince of Tides - and his father, the inspiration for The
Great Santini, find some common ground at long last.
Conroy’s great success as a writer has always been intimately linked with his family life.
While the publication of The Great Santini brought Conroy much attention, the public
rift it caused with his father generated more attention still. Their long-simmering conflict
burst into the open, fracturing an already battered family even further. But as Conroy
tenderly chronicles here, even the oldest of wounds can heal. In the final years of his
life, Don Conroy and his son reached a rapprochement of sorts. Quite unexpectedly, the
Santini who had freely doled out backhanded slaps targeted his ire on those who had
turned on Conroy over the years. He defended his son’s honor.
The Death of Santini is a heart-wrenching account of personal and family struggle, and
a poignant lesson in how ties of blood can both strangle and offer succor. It is an act of
reckoning, an exorcism of demons, but one whose ultimate conclusion is that love can
conquer even the meanest of men.
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at 678.812.4060 or
membership@atlantajcc.org
Reference code: MJCCA$1/DAY
*For the first three months. Open to anyone that has
not been a member of the MJCCA within the past 24
months. Restrictions apply. Valid Sept. 1 – Dec. 31, 2013.
Visit atlantajcc.org/specials for complete details.
**Opening October 2013
The Center
of the
Community
MJCCA | 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody, GA 30338 | 678.812.4060 |
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/MJCCA | atlantajcc.org
Experience the Book Festival the
high-tech way; download the
Guidebook app from the App or
Play Store and search for the
“MJCCA Book Festival” guide.
Book Festival Coordinator
Lauren Berger
Book Festival Director
Pamela Morton
Book Festival Co-Chairs
Marcy Bass & Wendy Bearman
MJCCA CEO
Gail Luxenberg
MJCCA President
Steven Cadranel
PROUD AFFILIATE OF:
Marcus Jewish Community
Center of Atlanta
5342 Tilly Mill Road
Dunwoody, GA 30338

- Marcus Jewish Community Center

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