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Virtual Unpacking the Book: Jewish Writers in Conversation

You Don’t Own Me: Queer Dis­cov­ery With­in the Jew­ish Community

Talk

Thursday, February 20, 2025
7 – 8 pm EST
Zoom, Virtual Program

Join a virtual conversation between Sara Glass and Eli Zuzovsky about discovering yourself and your queerness in the Jewish community. Through both fiction and nonfiction, this conversation will dive into who we are taught to be, who we want to be, and how we learn to choose who we are inside. Moderated by writer and podcast host, Stephanie Butnick.

To pur­chase a copy of Sara Glass’s Kissing Girls on Shabbat, or Eli Zuzovsky’s novel Mazeltov, please click here.

Free with RSVP

About the speakers:

Sara Glass, PhD, LCSW, is a therapist, writer, and speaker who helps members of the queer community and individuals who have survived trauma to live bold, honest, and proud lives. She lives in Manhattan, New York.

Eli Zuzovsky holds degrees from Harvard and Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. In 2022, he was selected for the Forbes Israel 30 Under 30 list and the London Library Emerging Writers Programme, and he is the winner of the 2025 Einstein Fellowship. His films and plays have been shown at the New York Jewish Film Festival, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, the American Repertory Theater, and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, among others. He currently lives in London. Mazeltov is his first novel.

This event is in partnership with the Jewish Book Council and the Jewish Museum.

This program is presented with captioning through Zoom. The Jewish Museum is committed to making its virtual programs accessible to all. For inquiries and requests for live CART interpretation, ASL interpretation, or additional accommodations please email info@thejm.org or call 212.423.3200 ext. 0.

Book covers: Mazeltov By Eli Zuzovsky (left) and Kissing Girls on Shabbat by Sara Glass (right). Image Courtesy of Jewish Book Council