Nextbook is thrilled to announce a partnership with Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies. Spertus, with its expansive public programming, exhibitions, collections, research facilities and degree programs is a natural partner for Nextbook. Spertus shares Nextbook's vision for promoting Jewish culture, literature and ideas, and will continue the Nextbook tradition in its Nextbook at Spertus series.
HIGHLIGHTS OF PAST EVENTS
Shalom Auslander with Ira Glass
APRIL 3, 2006
THORNE AUDITORIUM NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW
In his book of short stories,
Beware of God, Shalom Auslander kicks and screams at all things divine, yet can never quite let go. Raised in an Orthodox Jewish home, Auslander fled his family as a young man and began writing fiction as a way of understanding the distance he had traveled. Ira Glass is the producer and host of
This American Life.
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Ruth Gruber: From Holocaust to Haven
MARCH 1, 2006
HAROLD WASHINGTON LIBRARY
Born in 1911, Ruth Gruber first made her reputation as an enterprising journalist in the 1930s. A decade later, in 1944, Harold Ickes, the Secretary of the Interior, asked Gruber to lead a secret mission to escort 1,000 Jewish refugees from Italy to America. After WWII she worked as a correspondent in Europe and Palestine, where she became an advocate for Jews in DP camps.
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Listen to other past Nextbook events by visiting
Chicago Amplified, Chicago Public Radio's web-based audio archive of public programs held throughout the Chicagoland area.
My Father’s Paradise
Lighten Up
Wolves at the Door
Zionist Princess
Intimate Stranger
The Banality of Reading