11TH ANNUAL HYMAN S. & FREDA BERNSTEIN JEWISH LITERARY FESTIVAL October 18, 2009

Presented by the Washington D.C. Jewish Community Center’s Morris Cafritz Center for the Arts, this year’s Festival features a selection of authors who have received national recognition for their works, including rave reviews from publications such as The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. The Festival runs October 18-28.

The books selected for this year’s Festival appeal to book lovers with diverse interests including history, humor, poetry, fiction and much more. This year’s featured authors are:

 Neal Bascomb, author of Hunting Eichmann
 Deborah Bodin Cohen, author of Nachshon, Who Was Afraid to Swim
 Morris Dickstein, author of Dancing in the Dark
 Melissa Ford, author of Navigating the Land of IF
 Robin Gerber, author of Barbie and Ruth
 Zoë Heller, author of The Believers
 Dara Horn, author of All Other Nights
 Jonathan Keats, author of Book of the Unknown
 Binnie Kirshenbaum, author of The Scenic Route
 Nora Labiner, author of German for Travelers
 Joy Ladin, author of Transmigration Poems
 Shana Liebman, author of Sex, Drugs & Gefilte Fish
 Melvin Urofsky, author of Louis D. Brandeis: A Life

Tickets are available beginning September 15. To purchase Festival passes or tickets for individual events and locations, please visit www.washingtondcjcc.org/litfest or call (202) 777-3251. A full schedule of events is also available on the Web site. The Washington DCJCC is located at 1529 16th Street NW in Washington D.C.