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The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City

Deeply knowing, highly entertaining, and just a little bit irreverent, The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia is an unputdownable encyclopedia of all things Jewish and Jew-ish covering culture, religion, history, habits, language, and more. Readers will refresh their knowledge of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs, the artistry of Barbra Streisand, the significance of the Oslo Accords, the meaning of words like balaboosta,balagan, bashert, and bageling. Understand all…

$15

Republication of Dorothy Macardle’s, Dark Enchantment

Glucksman Ireland House NYU One Washington Mews, New York City

Dorothy Macardle (1889-1958) was an Irish novelist, playwright, and popular historian. Her 1942 feminist Gothic novel, The Uninvited, was adapted for the screen by Hollywood in 1944. The editor of Tramp Press's republication of Dark Enchantment (1953), Caroline Heafey, will speak on the author’s work. Tramp Press was launched in Dublin by Sarah Davis-Goff and Lisa Coen in 2014.

On Michel Leiris and The Ribbon at Olympia’s Throat

Albertine 972 5th Avenue, New York

Join Bruce Hainley, Wayne Koestenbaum and Christine Pichini for a conversation on Michel Leiris’s The Ribbon at Olympia’s Throat published by Semiotext, and translated from the French by  Pichini. Written in 1981, toward the end of Leiris’s life, The Ribbon at Olympia’s Throat serves as a coda to his autobiographical masterwork, The Rules of the Game, taking the form of both shorter fragments (poems, memory scraps,…