JCC Jewish Book Festival launches landmark 40th-annual edition, February 22 to 27
Lineup opens with memoirist Selina Robinson and closes with actor-comedian Brett Gelman of Stranger Things and Fleabag
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Laurie Frankel, author of Family Family. Photo by Natalia Dotto
Brett Gelman, author of The Terrifying Realm of the Possible: Nearly True Stories. Photo by David-Simon Dayan
The Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver presents the 40th-annual Jewish Book Festival from February 22 to 27, a landmark edition of a community-driven event with fascinating writers from across Canada, the U.S., and Israel.
Spanning quirky comedy writing, controversial political statements, historical accounts in the shadow of the Holocaust, and thrilling local stories by B.C. writers, the wide range of offers at this year’s festival will speak to all ages and interests with timely and universal themes.
Featured 2025 authors will include Selina Robinson on Opening Night in conversation about her searing, powerful memoir Truth Be Told, revealing the antisemitism she experienced in government. At the other end of the spectrum, Closing Night will feature actor and comedian Brett Gelman (of Stranger Things and Fleabag) with his hilariously neurotic literary debut The Terrifying Realm of the Possible: Nearly True Stories.
Selina Robinson, Truth Be Told.
Jason Bell, Cracking the Nazi Code.
The annual Book Clubs event will present best-selling American author Laurie Frankel with her novel Family Family, an original and engrossing exploration of how complicated families can be.
Award-winning journalist Yardena Schwartz will expose the ground-zero event of the current century-old war in her compelling Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict; historian Jason Bell will uncover the true story of a Canadian spy in Cracking the Nazi Code: The Untold Story of Agent A12 and the Solving of the Holocaust Code; and art history will get its fascinating turn with local historian Mark Braude in Kiki Man Ray: Arts, Love and Rivalry in 1920s Paris.
Sara Glass, Kissing Girls on Shabbat.
Sasha Vasilyuk, Your Presence Is Mandatory.
The long shadow of the Soviet empire and persecution will be explored in a joint event featuring Karine Rashkovsky with An Improbable Life: My Father’s Escape from Soviet Russia and journalist Sasha Vasilyuk with her riveting debut novel Your Presence Is Mandatory. Sara Glass, a therapist, writer, and speaker who was rejected by her controlling Orthodox Brooklyn community for being queer, will present her compelling memoir Kissing Girls on Shabbat.
There’s so much more in store, including memoirists, cookbook writers, and children’s authors. For a full schedule of happenings, visit the Jewish Book Festival.
Post sponsored by Jewish Book Festival.
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