{"title": "A Mentsh Is a Mentsh in Any Language: How Five Little Gefiltes Crossed the Atlantic and Came Back Speaking Yiddish", "start": "2026-10-28T18:30:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-28T20:30:00-04:00", "place": "Society of Illustrators", "address": "East 63rd Street 128, 10065 New York", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://societyillustrators.org/shop/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/childrens-books", "society/jewish-culture"], "description": "An evening at the Society of Illustrators built around Dave Horowitz's picture book Five Little Gefiltes and Gefiltlekh finf, the Yiddish animated film made from it, in its first public screenings in the United States. It includes a screening of the film, a behind-the-scenes presentation and a conversation with Horowitz, Sarah Schulman of the Stockholm Yiddish press Dos Nisele, and animators and co-directors Helene Berg and Isabella A Johanson, tracing how the book traveled from English into Swedish and then into Yiddish with translator Michael Wex. The talk looks at how writers, publishers, composers and animators on both sides of the Atlantic are adding to Jewish and Yiddish culture today, followed by an audience Q&A and a signing, with the book for sale in English and Swedish.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/a-mentsh-is-a-mentsh-in-any-language-how-five-little-gefilte-55950/", "official_url": "https://societyillustrators.org/event/a-mentsh-is-a-mentsh/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e883964ce979c2279e07f34a4ed61927e4a0195fd8af8104ea42e8e82e1d01e7-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-28T18:30:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-28T20:30:00-04:00", "place": "Society of Illustrators", "address": "East 63rd Street 128, 10065 New York", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "SIGD: Celebrate Ethiopian Jewry — A Multimedia Evening", "start": "2026-11-08T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-08T21:00:00-05:00", "place": "Brooklyn Heights Synagogue", "address": "Remsen Street 131, 11201 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://bhsbrooklyn.shulcloud.com/form/sigd-bhs-celebration-2026.html", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/spoken-word/storytelling", "religion/jewish", "occasion"], "description": "An evening of storytelling celebrating Ethiopian Jewry, built around the award-winning graphic novel The Last Day to Dress Up. Emmy-winning storyteller Yossi Vassa and illustrator Yarden Vasa present the story of Yossi's journey from Ethiopia to Israel with animation, narration, live painting, and a Q&A. 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It is hosted by Tali Rosenblatt Cohen together with bestselling author, writer, and actress Jill Kargman, creator and star of Odd Mom Out and co-writer and star of the new film Influenced. The event takes place at the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan on Amsterdam Avenue at 334, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The venue's event page shows an illustrated graphic for The Five Books with large light green lettering.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-five-books-live-podcast-53816/", "official_url": "https://www.mmjccm.org/events/the-five-books-live-podcast", "image": "https://noky.io/images/beeee30d03a5330f52323b23e117b8ad416e958f868f558a9a761da839e9652f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Book Club Community Shabbat Luncheon with Dr. Shaina Trapedo", "start": "2026-10-31T11:30:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T14:00:00-04:00", "place": "Congregation Sherith Israel", "address": "Central Park West, New York", "price": "Member adult: Early bird $48 | Regular $52; Non-member adult: Early bird $49 | Regular $54; Youth – ", "price_from": "28.00", "price_to": "54.00", "tickets_url": "https://shearithisrael.shulcloud.com/form/book-club-luncheon2026", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["religion/jewish", "literature"], "description": "A community Shabbat luncheon at Congregation Sherith Israel titled 'Between the Wars: Jewish Characters in 1920s & 1930s American Literature'. It is hosted by the congregation's Book Club and features insights and guided discussion by Professor Shaina Trapedo of Yeshiva University, following morning services. Book club members and non-members alike are welcome, with a list of 22 selected books offered for optional reading, including works by Anzia Yezierska, Willa Cather, and F. Scott Fitzgerald; Professor Trapedo is expected to give special attention to William Faulkner's 'Absalom, Absalom'. Dr. Trapedo directs honors programs at Stern College and Yeshiva College, teaches English at Stern College, and is a resident scholar at Yeshiva University's Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/book-club-community-shabbat-luncheon-with-dr-shaina-trapedo-52187/", "official_url": "https://www.shearithisrael.org/events/book-club-luncheon2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2bbd6bdb097f18cd75cc0c42cc797a0c9e37d00be793c3f83db677e2e8ff8445-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Craft Talk: Writing Queer YA with Max Fischer and David Levithan", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-10T21:00:00-05:00", "place": "Hive Mind Books", "address": "Irving Avenue 219, 11385", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://gathryapp.com/new-york-city/hive-mind-books-coffee-shop/26-11-10/craft-talk-writing-queer-ya-with-max-fischer-and-david-levithan", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/queer", "literature"], "description": "A craft talk on writing queer YA fiction, held to celebrate the release of The Unpoetic Life of August Grey. Authors Max Fischer and David Levithan discuss their process in an evening all about the books. It takes place at Hive Mind Books & Coffee Shop in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Grab a coffee and a seat for this rare chance to hear two YA voices talk craft.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/craft-talk-writing-queer-ya-with-max-fischer-and-david-levit-53035/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1a4b8c624e5705b29a067a2ee6fdf96c86c2a8d5751cbf77a36a93b54af8c991-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Torah & Taverna Night", "start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue and Museum", "address": "Broome Street 280, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/jewish-history", "music/folk", "religion/jewish"], "description": "Torah & Taverna Night is a monthly salon of Greek Jewish culture, thought, and music, held at Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue and Museum on Broome Street. The evening pairs a talk by a guest Jewish educator with live music, Greek food, and more. 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It features poets Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris, held ahead of the opening of Dead Centre's adaptation of Kaminsky's Deaf Republic. Kaminsky will read a selection of poems from Deaf Republic, and the two will also read poetry in translation from Ukraine. Farris is a poet, writer of hybrid forms, and translator whose recent book Standing in the Forest of Being Alive was named one of the Top Ten Books of 2023 by Publishers Weekly.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/skirball-salon-ilya-kaminsky-katie-farris-71791/", "official_url": "https://nyuskirball.org/performance/skirball-salon-ilya-kaminsky-katie-farris/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d93002e45bba2ab2f8d513cf0ab7938e5fe3bdd68541a0ebbc75cecc3bc592e9-2000.webp"}]}