The Launch of Steve’s New Book, JEWels and Your Favorite Jewish Joke
Sunday, March 19th
3pm
City Lore Gallery
(56 E. First Street between First and Second Avenues)
Free RSVP
Masks are mandatory
All of us at City Lore are so happy to invite you to the launch of Steve’s new book, JEWels: Teasing Out the Poetry in Jewish Humor and Storytelling. Our multi-media reading will include live drawings, storytelling, poetry and music. Artist Flash Rosenberg will be live drawing alongside our readers. Violinist/composer Alicia Svigals, the world’s leading klezmer fiddler and a founder of the Grammy-winning Klezmatics, will provide the melodies.
Featured readers will include the Lead Commentator for the book, the doyenne of Jewish storytelling, Peninnah Schram, featured poets, Zev Shanken, Esther Cohen, Flash Rosenberg, and Marc Kaminsky, former cartoon editor of The New Yorker, Bob Mankoff, and others. JEWels is an original hybrid – jokes and stories boiled down to their essence in short poems. Jewish witticism is preserved side by side with evocative storytelling and deepened with running commentary. As poet Zev Shanken writes, “Good news! Those jokes our parents shared when company arrived turn out to be anonymous unrhymed folk poems that are now collected in Steve Zeitlin’s new anthology, JEWels”
Everyone who attends will have an opportunity to share their favorite Jewish joke!
Peninnah will also be reading from her book, Peninnah’s World: A Jewish Life in Stories, a new biography created with biographer Caren Schnur Neile. Both Steve and Peninnah will be selling our books with a significant discount at the party – and we will be delighted to autograph them specially for you.
If you would like to purchase a copy of JEWels in advance, we are delighted to offer you a 40% discount, so you can purchase the book for $17.99. Please bring it to the launch to be signed! Your discount code is 6AF22. The easiest way to take advantage of this is to simply call the distributor at 1-800-848-6224 and order your book with the code.
You can also order JEWels from the publisher online at https://jps.org/books/jewels/ to receive the discount using the code, but you will need to set up an account with them to complete your order. Otherwise, it would be great to have you purchase additional copies of either book at JEWels on Amazon or Penninnah’s World on Amazon.
And, please visit, like and share at www.facebook.com/jewels.poetry.book @JewishPub
