2025 Global Jewish Literary Alliance Conversation: How to Tell a Jewish Story with Manya Wilkinson and Ayelet Tsabari VIRTUAL
Join the Global Jewish Literary Alliance for a conversation with Manya Wilkinson and Ayelet Tsabari on being storytellers, their journeys into the writing world, what inspires them, and how their approaches to writing differ. The conversation will discuss their approaches to writing their books, how they chose these stories to tell, and why telling Jewish stories, and these specific Jewish stories, is so important, right now and always. This conversation will be moderated by Emily Kasriel, author of Deep Listening: Transform your Relationships with Family, Friends and Foes.
Virtual, 12:00 EST. Free. For more information and for tickets go here: https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/events/2025-global-jewish-literary-alliance-conversation-how-to-tell-a-jewish-story-with-manya
Reading and Conversation at Saint John Jewish Historical Museum, NB, Canada
You are invited to join award-winning Israeli author Ayelet Tsabari for a reading from her debut novel Songs for the Broken Hearted and a conversation moderated by Lynn Bessoudo, writer and Jewish community member.
An informal reception will follow. Copies of the book will be available for sale and signing by the author.
A Love Song to My Jewish Yemeni Community: with Ayelet Tsabari VIRTUAL
Join the New York Jewish Week in partnership with UJA-Federation New York for the next event in our Folio literary series: author Aylelet Tsabari joins us to discuss Mizrahi Jewish identity, the allure and trauma of family secrets, and how authors like Tsabari are trying to make themselves heard in a market that has become hostile to Israeli voices. She will be joined in conversation with Andrew Silow-Carroll, Editor at Large of the New York Jewish Week.
Ayelet Tsabari—Songs from a Yemeni Israeli Legacy VIRTUAL
Join us on Wednesday, May 21 at 7 PM ET, for a conversation with Israeli author Ayelet Tsabari, who mined her own Yemini background for Songs for the Brokenhearted, winner of a 2024 National Jewish Book Award, a sweeping mutigenerational novel about love, loss and reconnection and the complex history of Yemeni Jews in Israel. Free and open to all.
Literary Modiin
An author series bringing together readers and writers of Jewish literary fiction, memoir & poetry. With Avner Landes and Joan Leegant. For more details, click here. This event will take place both in person and on Zoom. Peerspot Office, 32 Dam Hamacabbim, Modiin.
Jewish Book Week, London UK
The Promised Land? Authors in Israel Post 7 October. How has Israeli identity, life and literature been shaped by the seismic events of 7 October and their aftermath? Journalist and author Jenni Frazer leads a thought-provoking conversation about resilience, creativity and the enduring power of words with three outstanding Israeli writers: journalist Amir Tibon, whose The Gates of Gaza is […]
Our Own Stories: Authors on Jewish Life in the Muslim World
Join the Magnes and Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies for Our Own Stories: Authors on Jewish Life in the Muslim World, a virtual program with Jewish authors Almog Behar, Ruby Namdar, and Ayelet Tsabari, and scholar Angy Cohen. Virtual, 11:00am PT. Register here.
