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SUMMARY:BOOK CLUB NIGHT The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum with author Margalit Fox
DESCRIPTION:**Margalit Fox\,  **author of **_The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum:_**  **_The Rise\nand Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss_**  is our featured speaker for\nBook Club Night. Enjoy an array of charcuterie foods\, including cheese with\ngluten free crackers\, and desserts with your book club and other readers at\ntables while hearing from the featured author. Followed by book signing. \nAmerica’s first great organized-crime lord was a lady—a nice Jewish mother\nnamed Mrs. “Marm” Mandelbaum. In 1850\, twenty-five-year-old Fredericka\nMandelbaum came to New York and worked as a peddler on the streets of Lower\nManhattan. By the 1870s\, she was a fixture of high society\, an admired\nphilanthropist\, and a criminal mastermind!\n“A tour de force . . . With a pickpocket’s finesse\, Margalit Fox lures us into\nthe criminal underworld of Gilded Age New York.”—Liza Mundy\, author of _The\nSisterhood_ \n$20 – Speaker\, charcuterie\, and dessert\n$43 – Speaker\, charcuterie\, dessert\, and hardcover book\n**In-person at The J** \n**Registration Deadline:** Thursday\, October 31 \n**About the Author:** Margalit Fox originally trained as a cellist and a\nlinguist before pursuing journalism. As a senior writer in _The New York\nTimes_ ‘s Obituary News Department\, she wrote the front-page public sendoffs\nof some of the leading cultural figures of our age. Winner of the William\nSaroyan Prize for Literature and author of four previous nonfiction books\,\n_The Confidence Men\, Conan Doyle for the Defense\, The Riddle of the Labyrinth_\nand _Talking Hands._ Fox lives in Manhattan with her husband. \n**Sponsor:** The Bookies Book Club \nView event on Jlive: https://jlive.app/events/9126
URL:https://thejdetroit.org/event/book-club-night-the-talented-mrs-mandelbaum-with-author-margalit-fox/
LOCATION:The J – Detroit 6600 W Maple Rd\, West Bloomfield Township
CATEGORIES:Adults,Arts & Culture,College Students,Grandparents,Older Adults
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Detroit Jewish Book Fair":MAILTO:bookfair@jccdet.org
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SUMMARY:Here’s to the Ladies with author Eddie Shapiro\nfollowed by Live Concert of Broadway Tunes
DESCRIPTION:**Eddie Shapiro\,_Here’s to the Ladies: Con­ver­sa­tions with More of the Great\nWomen of Musi­cal Theater_**\nA fascinating look at the careers of some of Broadway’s greatest female\nperformers in their own words. In this follow-up to _Nothing Like a Dame:\nConversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater_ \, journalist Eddie\nShapiro sits down for intimate\, career-encompassing conversations with yet\nmore of Broadway’s most prolific leading ladies.\n**_Live concert following talk saluting Tony Award-winning women and other\ngreats performed by Arielle Crosby and Erin Johnson. Musical Director Brian E.\nBuckner._** \n**In-person at The J** ticketed event $25; Enjoy 20% off _Here’s to the\nLadies_ when purchasing with ticket. \n**About the Author:** Eddie Shapiro grew up singing music from every cast\nalbum he could get his hands on. He is the author of _Nothing Like a Dame:\nConversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater\, A Wonderful Guy:\nConversations with the Great Men of Musical Theater\, Queens in the Kingdom:\nThe Ultimate Gay and Lesbian Guide to the Disney Theme Parks_ \, and hundreds\nof articles in magazines with much shorter and more sensible titles than his\nbooks. He lives in New York City and Los Angeles. \n**Silver Book Sponsor:** B’nai B’rith International – Great Lakes Region\n**Sponsors:**  The Berman Center for the Performing Arts; Janice Charach\nGallery; JTraveler \nView event on Jlive: https://jlive.app/events/9125
URL:https://thejdetroit.org/event/heres-to-the-ladies-with-author-eddie-shapirofollowed-by-live-concert-of-broadway-tunes/
LOCATION:The Berman Center For The Performing Arts 6600 W Maple Rd\, West Bloomfield Township
CATEGORIES:Adults,Arts & Culture,College Students,Grandparents,Older Adults
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Detroit Jewish Book Fair":MAILTO:bookfair@jccdet.org
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SUMMARY:Book Fair@The DIA with author Jean Strouse - Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers
DESCRIPTION:**Jean Strouse** captures the dramas\, mysteries\, intrigues\, and tragedies\nsurrounding John Singer Sargent’s portraits of the Wertheimer family looking\nat****twelve portraits of one English family painted by the expatriate\nAmerican artist at the height of his career—and at the intersections of all\nthese lives with the sparkle and strife of the Edwardian age.\n**In conversation with Benjamin Colman\, Curator of American Art\, Detroit\nInstitute of Arts. Following the presentation\, please join a DIA docent-led\ntour of works by John Singer Sargent and other associated artists**.\n**About the Author:** Jean Strouse is the author of _Morgan\, American\nFinancier_  and _Alice James\, A Biography\,_  which won the Bancroft Prize in\nAmerican History and Diplomacy. Her essays and reviews have appeared in _The\nNew Yorker\, The New York Review of Books\, The New York Times\, Newsweek\,\nArchitectural Digest\,_  and _Slate._  She has been President of the Society of\nAmerican Historians\, a consultant (oral historian) to the Bill & Melinda Gates\nFoundation\, and a Fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.\nA member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, the American\nPhilosophical Society\, and the Executive Council of the Authors Guild\, she was\nthe Sue Ann and John Weinberg Director of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman\nCenter for Scholars and Writers at The New York Public Library from 2003 to\n2017. \n**Purchase the\nBook:**(https://bookshop.org/a/7125/9780374615673) \n**Platinum Day Sponsor:** Detroit Institute of Arts\n**Sponsors:** Janice Charach Gallery; JTraveler; Seminars for Adult Jewish\nEnrichment (SAJE) \nView event on Jlive: https://jlive.app/events/9124
URL:https://thejdetroit.org/event/book-fairthe-dia-with-author-jean-strouse-family-romance-john-singer-sargent-and-the-wertheimers/
LOCATION:Detroit Institute of Arts 5200 Woodward Ave\, Detroit
CATEGORIES:Adults,Arts & Culture,College Students,Grandparents,History,Older Adults
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