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Author Michael Wex, author of How to be a Mentsh; and not a Shmuck

Event details: Sunday, November 1 at 7:30 PM at the home of Mike Kwasin of Kwasin Liquors 3613 S Beach Drive.  Wine and Cheese reception. FREE event.

Wise and hilarious, this is a book about happiness -  your own and that of others. The principles outlined in Wex's book will work for anyone, Jewish or not, who makes the effort to put them into practice. Michael Wex is the New York Times bestselling author of the most successful and popular book on Yiddish language and culture ever - Born to Kvetch. He is also a novelist, playwright, lecturer, performer, authority on language and literature and public speaker.

Dr. Ezra Cappell - author of American Talmud: The Cultural Work of Jewish American Fiction.

Event details: Thursday, November 5 at 8:00 PM at Congregation Kol Ami 3919 Moran Road. Cookie and Coffee reception. FREE event. Sponsored by Manny and Rina Donchin.

Dr. Ezra Cappell will speak on what is Jewish about the novels of the major American Jewish writers. Dr. Cappell is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Inter-American Jewish Studies Program at the University of Texas at El Paso.

David Sax - author of  Save the Deli.

Event details: Wednesday, November 18 at 7:00 PM at the Tampa JCC 13009 Community Campus Dr. This is a dinner event. Tickets are $10 per person. SPACE IS EXTREMELY LIMITED. RSVPS ARE NOW ONLY BEING ACCEPTED BY TELEPHONE. PLEASE CALL ALISSA FISCHEL AT 813.769.4726 TO RSVP.

As a journalist and life-long deli obsessive, David Sax was understandably alarmed by the state of Jewish delicatessen-- a cuisine that once sat at the very center of Jewish life had become endangered by assimilation, homogenization, and health food trends. And so David set out on a journey across the United States and around the world in search of authentic delicatessen. Was it still possible to Save the Deli? 

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Daniel Asa Rose - author of Larry’s Kidney: Being the True Story of How I Found Myself in China with My Black Sheep Cousin and His Mail-Order Bride, Skirting the Law to Get Him A Transplant - And Save His Life

Event Details: Saturday, November 21at 8:00 PM at Congregation Beth Am 2030 W Fletcher Avenue. Cookie and Coffee reception. FREE event.

Daniel Asa Rose is currently editor of the international literary magazine The Reading Room, and has served as book reviewer for The New York Observer and New York Magazine, arts and culture editor of the Forward newspaper, travel columnist for Esquire magazine, humor writer for GQ, essayist for The New York Times Magazine, and food critic for the past 20 pounds.

Erin Einhorn - author of The Pages In Between

Event details: Sunday, November 22 at Congregation Rodeph Sholom 2713 Bayshore Blvd.

7:00 pm Meet the author wine and cheese reception, wtih a special invitation to  all book clubs in the Tampa Bay area

7:45 pm  Author presentation

When reporter Erin Einhorn found the family that hid her mother from the Nazis during World War II, she thought she'd created a made-for-TV-reunion for two families thrown together by history. A man who knew her mother as a child threw his arms around her and – tears streaming down his face – told her the little girl had been a sister to him. But the initial embrace soon gave way to half a century's hurt feelings and resentments. Erin found herself apologizing for choices made years before she was born, untangling a real estate deal made on a handshake by people no longer alive and struggling to prove the death of a great-grandfather born in 1868. Then, as she confronted the heart-wrenching circumstances of her family's tragic past, unexpected events in her own life altered her mission completely.

For more information about Jewish Book Month events, please contact Brandy Gold at  brandy.gold@jewishtampa.com or call 813.769.4725. All books can be purchased or pre-ordered at the Tampa JCC, Barnes & Noble Carrollwood and South Tampa locations. Sponsored by the Tampa JCC in partnership with the Jewish Book Council.

Jewish Book Month Celebration is made possible in part through the generous support of:

The Manners Family

Author accommodations generously provided by: