Presented by Ilana Kurshan, Author
Join award-winning author Ilana Kurshan for a conversation about her newly released memoir, Children of the Book, a moving exploration of how reading together can shape a family’s inner world.
Kurshan will reflect on the deeply Jewish nature of reading as a practice that links generations, echoes the liturgical cycle, and turns shared stories into lasting inheritance. Whether you’ve spent years reading to children or grandchildren, or you cherish memories of being read to yourself, come be inspired by this luminous meditation on the stories that shape us—and the stories we share.
Join us in person at B’nai Israel Congregation in Rockville, Maryland or online.
In-person registration will open soon. Click below to receive the Zoom link to join us online.
Ilana Kurshan is the author of If All the Seas Were Ink, winner of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish literature, and Children of the Book. She has worked in literary publishing both in New York and in Jerusalem as a translator and foreign rights agent and as the books editor of Lilith Magazine.
Kurshan is a graduate of Harvard University (BA, summa cum laude, History of Science) and Cambridge University (M.Phil, English literature). She teaches and studies Torah in Jerusalem, where she lives with her husband and five children.