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Events
2025
Sunday, January 12, 2pm PT/5pm ET, Virtual, Loyola Marymount University, Jewish Book Group
Sunday, February 16, 11am CT/1pm ET, Virtual, Santa Fe Distinguished Lecture Series
Thursday, February 20, 7pm ET, Whitelam Books Fiction Book Club, Reading, MA
Tuesday, February 25, 7:30pm ET, Virtual, “One Book, One Synagogue,” Temple Emeth, Teaneck, NJ
Thursday, March 6, 2pm, Los Angeles, “Sephardic Stories,” Al Finci Distinguished Lecture in Sephardic Studies, UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, with Sarah Abrevaya Stein & Michael Frank
Sunday, March 16, 2pm, New York City, Annual Helene Spring Library Event, East End Temple
Sunday, March 23, 4:30-6, Newton, MA, Congregation Dorshei Tzedek
Saturday, April 26, Newburyport, MA, Newburyport Literary Festival
Wednesday, April 30, 7pm, Chestnut Hill, MA, Hummingbird Books, in conversation with Tova Mirvis about her new novel, We Would Never
Past Events
(2024)
- November 21, Virtual, UNC Chapel Hill
- November 7, Marblehead, MA, JCC of the North Shore
- September 14, Cuttyhunk Island Writers’ Residency
- September 17, Chestnut Hill, MA, Waterworks Museum, Julia Ward Howe Awards Ceremony
- September 5, Boston, MA, Beacon Hill Books & Cafe, with Ben Shattuck
- July 26, Wickford, RI, 14 Gold Street Spiritual Refuge Series, Elizabeth Graver & Ralph Savarese, North Kingston Free Library
- June 4, New York, NY, “The Past as Presence: A Novelist & Psychoanalyst Compare Notes,” Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine, Columbia University, with Dr. Ruth Graver, moderated by novelist Lisa Gornick
- May 21, Virtual, Ruth Keeler Library, North Salem, NY
- May 14, Virtual, North Castle NY Library
- May 8
—Virtual, Jewish American Fiction Book Club, Marin County, CA
—Virtual, Jewish Women’s Literary Society of Boynton Beach, FL - May 5, Virtual, One Bay One Book discussion of Kantika.
- May 1, Newton, MA, Hummingbird Books
- April 19, Boston, MA, Carl Steinbaum Memorial Lecture, Temple Israel of Boston
- April 18, Virtual, Temple Beth Israel, Skokie, IL
- April 17, Newton, MA, Brandeis National Committee
- April 15, Hartford, CT, University of Hartford, Edward Lewis Wallant Award Ceremony
- April 8, Virtual, Beth El Synagogue, Durham NC
- March 28, New York, NY, The Jewish Museum, “Wandering Jews: Two Diasporic Journeys Out of the Ottoman Empire,” with Elizabeth Graver, Jordan Salama & Stephanie Butnick
- March 27, 73rd National Jewish Book Awards Panel, Touro University
- March 19 (virtual), Mandel JCC of Cleveland, with Aaron Hamburger
- February 8 (virtual), Congregation Beth Israel, North Adams, MA
- February 4 (virtual), Jewish Federation of Great Orange County
- January 25, Cambridge, MA, Porter Square Books, Elizabeth interviews Katherine Vaz
- January 21, New York, NY, Center for Jewish History, 7th Annual New York Ladino Day, with Bryan Kirschen & Jane Mushabac
- January 10 (virtual), Port Jewish Center, Port Washington NY
- January 9 (virtual), Qesher Book Club. Watch video here.
(2023)
- December 19, San Francisco, CA, Association for Jewish Studies Conference, “The Muse under the Microscope:”
- December 14, Naples, FL, Jewish Federation of Greater Naples
- December 13, Miami Beach JCC, Miami, FL, with the Guy Mendilow Ensemble
- December 12, Boca Raton, FL, Levis JCC & B’nai Torah
- December 12, Pinecrest, FL, Alper JCC
- December 7, East Falmouth MA, Falmouth Jewish Congregation
- December 5, New York, NY, Stern College
- December 3, International Ladino Day, with Devin Naar, Stroum Center for Jewish Studies, U. of Washington. Watch video here.
- November 29 (virtual), Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas, with Rachel Amado Bortnick
- November 15, Cherry Hill, NJ, Katz JCC
- November 9 (virtual), Jewish Historical Society of Hong Kong
- November 3, Rockville, MD, Bender JCC
- October 26, Worcester JCC
- October 27, Concord, MA, Concord Festival of Authors
- October 22, Chicago Loop Synagogue, with Rosellen Brown
- October 22, Lombard, IL, Congregation Etz Chaim
- October 18 (virtual), JCC West Orange, NJ
- October 18 (virtual), “Coming to America,” Milwaukee Public Library & the Yiddish Book Center
- October 7, Morristown Festival of Books, with Idra Novey & Julie Maloney
- September 28, Worcester, MA, College of the Holy Cross
- September 21 (virtual), Jewish Women’s Archive. Watch video here.
- September 14, Museum of Jewish Heritage, NYC, “Sephardic Stories,” with Elizabeth Graver, Michael Frank, Shoshana Bean & Maira Kalman
- September 12 (virtual), Beth EL Temple, Harrisburg, PA
- September 7 (virtual), Center for Jewish History
- August 15 (virtual), Merage JCC, Irvine, CA
- August 3, Where the Sidewalk Ends Literary Luncheon, Chatham, MA
- July 19, Bookwoman Austin (virtual), with Ramona Reeves
- July 13, Davoll’s, South Dartmouth, MA, with Emily Franklin
- June 26, “Scribblers on the Roof,” Ansche Chesed Synagogue, NYC, with Michael Frank
- June 15, “One Book, One Hadassah.” Watch video here.
- June 1, Provisions Williamstown, with audiobook narrator Gail Shalan
- June 2, Jewish Federation of the Berkshires, Great Barrington, MA, with Sarah Aroeste
- May 24, Astoria Bookshop, Astoria, Queens, with Anna Solomon
- May 17, Lincoln Public Library, Lincoln, MA, with Judy Bolton-Fasman
- May 12, “A Mighty Blaze, Friday Frontliner” (virtual), with Allison Adair. Watch video here.
- May 4, Porter Square Books, Cambridge, MA, with Aaron Hamburger
- May 3, Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, S. Seltzer Silberman Conversation Series. Watch video here.
- April 26, Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore, Middletown, CT, with Sylvie Graver Pingeon
- April 25, New York State Writers Institute/SUNY Albany
- April 23, Literary Modiin, with Jennifer Rosner & Sandi Wisenberg
- April 19, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
- April 18, Newtonville Books, Newton, MA, with Tova Mirvis