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Event has been cancelled due to illness. Edward Kritzler Tuesday, February 2, 7:00 p.m. Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom -- and Revenge BUY NOW Oshman Family JCC - Schultz Cultural Arts Center, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto A historian and USA Today reporter, Mr. Kritzler’s book is based on the Jews who were forced to flee the Spanish Inquisition.
The most adventurous among them took to the high seas as freewheeling outlaws in ships bearing names such as the Queen Esther and Shield of Abraham. They plundered the Spanish fleet while forming alliances with other European powers to ensure the safety of Jews living in hiding. For more information and tickets, click HERE Start: 7:30 pm
Tuesday, February 2, 7:30 p.m. The Professor and Other Writings BUY NOW From one of America's most brilliant critics and cultural commentators comes a collection of startling, gorgeously written autobiographical essays. [Castle] is a brilliant stylist, and everything she writes is gripping.--Edmund White.
"This is the book we Terry Castle fans have been waiting for, and those new to her work are in for a revelation - a brain-goosing, entertaining blast." Castle is Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University and has taught eighteenth-century English literature at Stanford since 1983. She specializes in the history of the novel, especially the works of Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding, and in the study of eighteenth-century popular culture. She has written seven books. In 1995 her book The Female Thermometer was a runner-up for the PEN Spielvogel-Diamondstein Award for the Art of the Essay. She writes regularly for the London Review of Books, the New Republic, and other magazines and journals. | ||
