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Author Breakfast: Night Angels by Weina Dai Randel

Virtual NY

A moving novel about a diplomatic couple who risked their lives to help Viennese Jews escape the Nazis, inspired by the true story of Dr. Ho Fengshan, Righteous Among the Nations. This program will be presented virtually only. $60

Partners with the Community: Israel’s Declaration of Independence by Neil Rogachevsky

Woodbury Jewish Center 200 South Woods Drive, Woodbury, NY, United States

Through a presentation of the drafts of Israel's Declaration of Independence in English for the first time, see the dilemmas of politics, diplomacy, and values faced by Israel's leaders as they charted the path to independence and composed what became modern Israel's most important political text.

Author Breakfast: Küntslers in Paradise by Cathleen Schine

Virtual NY

Mamie was only 11 when her family escaped Vienna in 1939 and made their way to Lose Angeles with other Jews escaping Hitler. Now in 2020, Mamie tells her grandson Julian the buried stories of her years in California. This program will be presented virtually only. $60

Partners with the Community: The Last of the Seven by Steven Hartov

Temple Beth Israel 1 Temple Drive, Port Washington, NY, United States

A spellbinding novel of World War II based on the little-known history of the X Troop — a team of European Jews who escaped the continent only to join the British Army and return home to exact their revenge on Hitler’s military.

Partners with the Community: The Night Travelers by Lucas Correa

Melville Jewish Center 2600 New York Avenue, Melville, NY, United States

Four generations of women experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise of Nazism to the Cuban Revolution and finally, the fall of the Berlin Wall in this sweeping novel.