History, Tradition,
Lifestyle and Inspiration
People of the Book is a special Jewish Community Center endowment
fund, administered by the Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies for the
benefit of the Annual Jewish Community Book Fair. The fund helps to
underwrite costs and assures the continuity of Book Fair for future
generations. We are indebted to the founders of People of the Book,
Rabbi Shay and Lila Mintz, for ongoing guidance and support.
Please become a People of the Book patron today!
Your Financial Support is Crucial to the Longevity of JCC Cultural Arts Programming.
Your People of the Book donation includes:
• Passes to most of the programs listed in this brochure
(details and exclusions are listed on the mail order form)
• Acknowledgement on a bookmark
• Acknowledgement on the Book Fair website www.jccbookfair.com
Endowment
Fund
Autumn Harvest Diner and Concert
Tuesday, November 1 Dinner 5:30 pm, Concert 8 pm JCC Benderson
Dr. Marc Agr onin – How We Age:
Global Day of Jewish Learning
Sunday, November 13 10 am JCC Benderson
Priscila Warner – Learning to Breathe:
Sunday, November 13 7:30 pm JCC Benderson
Lucette LagnaDo – The Arrogant Years: Books and Brunch
Sunday, November 20 11:30 am JCC Benderson
Kathy Kacer -
Restitution: A Family’s fight for their Heritage Lost in the Holocaust
&
To Hope and Back: The Journey of the St. Louis
M onday, November 21 7:30 pm JCC Benderson
Tuesday, October 25 7:30 pm JCC Benderson
Keynote Speaker Rabbi Barry Schwartz
Joan Leegant – Wherever You Go
Thursday, December 1 7:30 pm JCC Benderson
The Twins from France – Acrobatic Show preceded by a concert
S unday, December 11 2 pm JCC Benderson
Professor Alan Dowty – A Short Course on the Middle East
Tuesday, November 15 – Thursday, November 17 7 pm JCC Benderson
Thank you sponsors, support ers and particip ants
(additional acknowledgements at www.jccbookfair.com)
An Endowment for the Jewish Community Book Fair
The 45th annual Jewish Community Book Fair and Cultural Arts Season will be proudly hosted in the
newly renovated JCC’s Benderson Family Building at 2640 North Forest Road in Getzville. The Book
Fair season offers a series of Jewish content cultural arts programs and welcomes both prominent and
emerging authors addressing values of Judaism through history, prayer, family and culture. This season
you will enjoy author presentations, book sales and signings, lectures, amazing acrobat twins, a dinner
and receptions catered by the new Myers Family Tel Aviv Café, and the second Global Day of Jewish
Learning.
We are always grateful for the guidance we receive from the Jewish Book Council and the support
of the JBC network, a community of authors and Jewish Book Festivals throughout the U.S.A. and
Canada, www.jewishbookcouncil.org.
Programs and receptions are sponsored by the Jewish Community Center, local organizations and
agencies, businesses, and individual donors committed to supporting Jewish Cultural Arts programming.
We are grateful to all.
Books sold at author events are sold by Talking Leaves…Books and a percentage of sales is donated to
Book Fair. We thank Jonathon Welch, proprietor of Talking Leaves, for handling book ordering and sales.
We appreciate the talented efforts of our “webmacher,” Joe Davis, owner of webstuff, www.webstuff.org.
Please visit www.jccbookfair.com for links to author and entertainer websites. The Book Fair website
also acknowledges supporters.
Sandy Saada – JCC Cultural Arts Director
2011-2012 Jewish Cultural Arts Steering Team