34th ANNUAL
Toronto Jewish Book Fair
October 23 to October 31, 2010
Beth David B’nai Israel Beth Am Synagogue, 55 Yeomans Road, Toronto
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The 34th Annual Toronto Jewish Book Fair returns bigger and better than ever, and in its new home: Beth David B’nai Israel Beth Am Synagogue. This year featuring Award-winning Israeli author and peace activist David Grossman, brilliant American writer George Gilder, award-winning Canadian author Anna Porter, political activist, writer and broadcaster Tarek Fatah, and more.
The Toronto Jewish Book Fair, established in 1976, is one of the largest Jewish Book Fairs in North America. Each year, over 5,000 people enthusiastically attend the week-long event featuring sales of a wide range of books of Jewish interest, over 25 international and Canadian authors, film screenings, panel discussions, musical events, workshops, and children’s events. The Toronto Jewish Book Fair is presented by the Koffler Centre of the Arts.
The 34th Annual Toronto Jewish Book Fair returns from October 23 to October 31, 2010, at Beth David B’nai Israel Beth Am Synagogue, 55 Yeomans Road, Toronto. Admission to the Fair is free and open to the public.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Please click here for detailed schedule and descriptions (PDF)
*Schedule subject to change
Opening Night | Saturday October 23
8 PM | $25
David Grossman, To the End of the Land
Sponsored by ShaRna Foundation
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Sunday, October 24
11 AM | FREE
K. David Brody, Mourning and Celebration – Jewish, Orthodox and Gay Past and Present
1:30 PM | $5
Simcha for Simcha: Yiddish/English Celebration of author and poet Simcha Simchovitch’s 90th birthday, with readings and music by folksinger Batsheva.
Sponsored by Committee for Yiddish, UJA Federation, Friends of Yiddish, United Jewish People’s Order/Winchevsky Centre, Workmen’s Circle/Arbeiter Ring and Max & Beatrice Wolfe Library, Beth Tzedec Congregation.
2 PM | $5
Jewish Mother Alert: The Line on Motherly Love with the Online Generation with Judith Finer Freedman, author of Cracking the Code: Unlocking the Potential for Future Leaders
3 PM | FREE
PJ Library goes to Book Fair with readings for children 2-5 by renowned children’s author Aubrey Davis, author of Bagels from Benny and Bone Button Borscht
3:30 PM | $5
Readings from Parchment, Canada’s journal of contemporary Jewish writing, with contributors Ruth Panofsky (editor), Adam Fuerstenberg, Anne Dublin, Kathy Kacer, Seymour Mayne, Merle Nudelman, Pearl Adler-Saban, Ilana Wolfe and Rhoda Rabinowitz-Green
4 PM | $10
Martin Fletcher, NBC News Bureau Chief in Tel Aviv, Walking Israel – A Personal Search for the Soul of a Nation
8 PM | $10
George Gilder, The Israel Test
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Monday, October 25
1:30 PM | $5
Walter Pitman, Victor Feldbrill: Canadian Conductor Extraordinaire
8 PM | $10
Harold Troper, The Defining Decade
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Tuesday, October 26
1:30 PM | $5
Bill Gladstone, The Rise of the Toronto Jewish Community
8 PM
Gregory Levey, How to Make Peace in the Middle East in Six Months or Less Without Leaving Your Apartment
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Wednesday, October 27
1:30 PM | $5
Kate Taylor, A Man in Uniform
8 PM | $10
Anna Porter, The Ghosts of Europe- Journeys Through Central Europe’s Troubled Past and Uncertain future
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Thursday, October 28
1:30 PM | $5
Judie Oron, Cry of the Giraffe
8 PM | $10
TBA
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Saturday, October 30
8 PM | $10
Marek Halter, The Jewish Odyssey
Sponsored by Na’amat Canada
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Sunday, October 31
11 AM | FREE
Kitty Wintrob, I’m Not Going Back: Wartime Memoir of a Child Evacuee
11:30 AM | FREE
Elan Divon, Reaching Beyond the Religious
1:30 PM | $5
Larry Rodness, Today I am a Man
2 PM | $5
Savyon Liebrecht, The Women My Father Knew
3 PM | $5
Michael Posner speaks on the new theory that William Shakespeare was a Jewish woman from a converso family of musicians from Venice brought to the English court by Henry VIII.
CLOSING NIGHT
8 PM | $10
Tarek Fatah, The Jew is Not My Enemy: Unveiling the Myths that Fuel Muslim
Sponsored by Oraynu Congregation for Humanistic Judaism.
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TORONTO JEWISH BOOK FAIR TICKETS
Tickets on sale starting Monday, September 13, 2010
Monday – Thursday: 10 AM – 4 PM
Order Tickets at 416.638-1881, ext 4281 or by e-mail: hredner@kofflerarts.org
Tickets will be held and distributed only at Beth David Synagogue one hour prior to your program(s) of choice. Tickets at $5 can only be purchased at Beth David Synagogue one hour before the programs during the week of the Fair. PLEASE NOTE: Box office is closed during the Jewish Holy Days on Thursdays, September 23 and September 30 and on Fridays
JEWISH BOOK FAIR HOURS
Saturdays, October 23 and October 30 | 7 PM – 10 PM
Sundays, October 24 and October 31 | 10 AM – 10 PM
Monday through Thursday, October 25-28 | 10 AM – 4 PM, Reopens 6:30 PM – 10 PM
Friday, October 29 | 10 AM – 1 PM
Programs are subject to change. No refunds on tickets or books
Entrance to the Toronto Jewish Book Fair is FREE.
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| Location: | Beth David B’nai Israel Beth Am Synagogue, 55 Yeomans Road |