JWA Events
Join us for JWA's Summer 2026 Book Talks on Thursdays, May 28-June 25, 8 PM ET. REGISTER.
Featured Authors
Thursday, May 28, 8 PM ET—Cathryn J. Prince, For the Love of Labor: The Life of Pauline Newman
Prince’s biography traces how Pauline Newman, a self-educated Jewish immigrant and one of the youngest activists in US history, helped shape the International Ladies' Garment Workers’ Union into a dominant force in industrial America.
Thursday, June 4, 8 PM ET—Jordan Katz, Delivering Knowledge: Jewish Midwives and Healing in Early Modern Europe
Delivering Knowledge centers the experiences of Jewish midwives to open new understandings of Jewish communal history, the history of women's healing practices, and Jewish-Christian relations in the early modern period.
Thursday, June 11, 8 PM ET—Judy Batalion, The Last Woman of Warsaw
This debut novel by bestselling author of The Light of Days follows two very different Jewish women in Warsaw in the late 1930s as they unexpectedly come together in their search for love, meaning, and a sense of home, and as they grapple with the storm clouds gathering around them.
Thursday, June 18, 8 PM ET—Samira Mehta, God Bless the Pill: The Surprising History of Contraception and Sexuality in American Religion
God Bless the Pill traces the remarkable story of how mid-20th-century Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish voices promoted birth control and made it more accessible for many Americans, but did so for reasons tied to family stability and Cold War political concerns rather than for inherently feminist reasons.
Thursday, June 25, 8 PM ET—Allegra Goodman, This Is Not About Us
This Is Not About Us presents a kaleidoscopic portrait of a modern Jewish American family—steadfast, complicated, begrudging, and loving—across three generations.
