Join us at the ERJCC Book & Arts Festival from November 4-18, 2023!

This event is sponsored in part by Congregation Brith Shalom.

Inspiring and entertaining, the Ann and Stephen Kaufman Jewish Book & Arts Festival delivers a variety of opportunities for the community to learn and experience Jewish literary, culture and performing arts. The Festival is one of the city’s leading cultural and literary events, attracting a large and varied audience of all ages and is recognized as one of the largest Jewish Book & Arts Festivals in the nation.

The 51st annual Festival features an outstanding line-up of authors and artists, offering fresh, interactive programming touching on a number of top-of-mind topics relevant to our daily lives.

THIS EVENT:
UNTOLD STORIES: SEX & POLITICS
In Conversation with Norri Leder

IN-PERSON
Tickets: Member $18 | Public $23
Premium Ticket with 1 book*: $43
Premium Ticket with 2 books*: $59
*Premium Tickets with Book include the standard event ticket plus a book and can be picked up at the bookstore.

ON-DEMAND
This recording will be available the evening of November 12. Recordings will be sent out via email and will remain available through the end of 2023.
Tickets: Member $18 | Public $23

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Powerful women have always had a place in history.  Join us for a fun evening with two authors to learn how these feminine trailblazers, subjects of their biographical books, made an imprint.  Join us for cocktails and dessert after the event.

Debby Applegate  
Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age  
How did a “nice Jewish girl” from a Russian shtetl become one of the most notorious Jewish-American women of the 20th Century? Queen of the underworld in Jazz-Age New York, Madam Polly Adler, ran brothels catering to a wide variety of clientele - including the rich and famous. This unorthodox history follows this iconic woman who made her mark in one of the oldest professions, ascending the ranks to be coined as the “female Al Capone.”

Donna Frankoff Memorial Lecture
Christopher Gorham  
The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shaped Modern America  
Anna Marie Rosenberg, a Hungarian Jewish immigrant who, despite only a high school education, became one of the most influential women in national policies.  As an advisor to four presidents, businesswoman and US public official, the untold story of her life spans the New Deal to the Cold War. Rosenberg fought tirelessly for causes from racial integration to women’s equality to national health care as her life ran parallel to the front lines of history she helped to shape.  

Patron Sponsors: Christine and Mark Laskin

Community Partners: CBS Women – Sisterhood of the Congregation of Brith Shalom, Houston Chapter of Hadassah