SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2026, 10 AM-NOON, PACIFIC TIME About the Author: Katja Petrowskaja was born in Kyiv in 1970, to a Russian-speaking family. She studied literature in Tartu, Estonia and then completed her PhD in Moscow. She has lived in Berlin since 1999. She won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2013 and wrote her bestselling first book Maybe Esther, in German. It was published in 2014 and was awarded the Premio Strega Europeo Prize, the Aalen Town Schubart Literary Prize,

SUNDAY, AUG 9, 2026, 10am-Noon PDT A handbook of Yiddish phrases and usages you won't get in your Yiddish language class, written with the spicy humor, incisive wit and inside knowledge of a Yeshiva-trained badkhen (wedding entertainer). But there's more! While kvetching (complaining) is a mood woven deeply into the Yiddish language, Wex is really about capturing the lived experience of yidishkayt--Jewishness--from an Ashkenazi perspective. It's an exercise in essentialism

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