Jewish Book Festival
Special Presentation
MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2026 – 7:30 PM
in the Norman & Annette Rothstein Theatre
ELI BATALION
JUDY BATALION – The Last Woman of Warsaw BUY TICKETS
Join sister and brother Judy Batalion (NYT bestselling author, The Light of Days) and Eli Batalion (award-winning filmmaker/performer, YidLife Crisis) as they come together to (psycho)analyze their lineage to find out how and why they were drawn to telling Jewish stories. There’ll be lots of laughs, investigative questions, book discussion and, of course, some sibling bickering.
Judy Batalion will present her new novel, The Last Woman of Warsaw, which 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. Q&A encouraged!
BOOKS WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR SALE AND JUDY WILL BE SIGNING.
About the JCC Jewish Book Festival
The Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival is a community-wide event that brings together prominent and emerging Jewish writers and non-Jewish writers on Jewish subject matter.
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