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Annual Membership Brunch and Meeting / Knish: In Search of the Jewish Soul Food (Lucille Gudis Memorial Lecture)

Sunday, December 20, 2015, 11:00am
Contact info@jgsny.org
knishbookcover-silverlaura.jpgJoin us for our annual brunch and get together with old and new friends

Kosher dairy buffet
Speaker: Laura Silver



Join world's leading knish expert Laura Silver, author of Knish: In Search of the Jewish Soul Food  (Brandeis University Press), in a celebration of ancestry, gastronomy and humble roots. Laura will dish on the disappearance of her beloved Brighton Beach knish shop (Mrs. Stahl's) and on her seven-year, three-continent quest for traces of the humble hunk of stuffed dough and the uncanny discovery of her own roots... in, you guessed it, the Polish town of Knyszyn.
Laura Silver is the award-winning author of Knish: In Search of the Jewish Soul Food (Brandeis University Press, 2014), a sought-after public speaker and writer whose writing on food and culture has appeared in the New York Times, The Forward and on National Public Radio. She has been a writer in residence at the Millay Colony, the Banff Centre and the New York Public Library. Laura has led baking sessions for people of all ages and has taught writing at Brooklyn College, the University of Virginia and the New School for Public Engagement, where she invented the course, "Jewish Food through Song and Film." Laura has delivered talks at the Krakow Jewish Festival, the American Museum of Natural History and TEDx and is considered the world’s leading expert on a knish.

Brunch at 11 AM. Reservations required. Seating is limited.
Cost: $25 for members, $30 for non-members Membership meeting at 12:00 Noon. Program at 12:30 PM is open to all.

Cost for program only: Free to members, $5 to non-members.
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Special opportunity to buy a copy of Laura Silver’s book Knish: In Search of the Jewish Soul Food @ $15.00 (regular price is $24.95).
Reserve Your Copy before Dec 7th
Location : Village Temple
We strongly encourage you to register for this special event online by December 7th, 2015\n\nIf you prefer to register by mail, please complete the registration form and send with your check payable to JGS by December 7th to: Brunch at JGS c/o Michael Pertain 913 East 12th St., Brooklyn, NY 11230-3507\n

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