Keep Calm and Read On

Keep Calm and Read On

1pm - 1:45pm

Join us weekly to discuss short stories with a Jewish theme. Each story will be available to you to read online from a link provided in your confirmation email after registering. 

Our second title will be "The Loudest Voice" by Jewish-American poet and short story writer, Grace Paley. It is an oft anthologized story published in 1959 that tells the humorous story of Shirley Abramowitz, a young Jewish girl in 1930's New York who is asked to narrate the school Christmas play.

Lisa Silverman is the Director of the Burton Sperber Jewish Community Library at AJU. A specialist in Jewish children's literature with over 20 years of experience in synagogue and community libraries, she leads monthly book clubs and film discussions.