Jewish Literary Festival at the DCJCC
Remaining events in the 12th annual Jewish Literary Festival at the DCJCC include Jerry Muller discussing Capitalism and the Jews about the disproportionate success of Jews in capitalist economies, exploring the most plausible explanations for this striking phenomenon and examining the remarkable range of Jewish responses to capitalism, on Monday, Oct. 25, and a closing night program on Wednesday, Oct. 27, featuring Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, whose 36 Arguments for the Existence of God is a hilarious, heartbreaking and intellectually captivating novel exploring the rapture and torments of religious experience in all its variet. D.C. Jewish Community Center, 1529 16th St. NW. Call 202-777-3251 or visit washingtondcjcc.org/litfest.
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Jewish Literary Festival at the DCJCC
Festival highlights of this year’s Jewish Literary Festival include Ruth Franklin, Senior Editor at The New Republic, discussing her book A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction, on Tuesday, Oct. 19; Miryam Kabakov discussing her new book Keep Your Wives Away From Them in a presentation with the 16th Street J’s Kurlander Program for Gay & Lesbian Outreach and Engagement (GLOE), on Wednesday, Oct. 20; and Judith Freidenberg discussing The Invention of the Jewish Gaucho: Villa Clara and the Construction of Argentine Identity, on Friday, Oct. 22. The festival runs to Oct. 27. Washington, D.C. Jewish Community Center, 1529 16th St. NW. Call 202-777-3251 or visit washingtondcjcc.org/litfest.
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