Speakers: Sally Berkovic, Nessa Rapoport

From burials to sitting shiva, join the authors of two intriguing new books on how Jewish communities mark death. Nessa Rapoport, author of Preparing for Sabbath and A Women’s Book of Grieving, returns with Evening: A Novel, with a Jewish family mourning the death of one of two sisters. And in Death Duties: The Chevra Kadisha Jewish Burial Society, What Being Around the Dead Taught Me About Life Sally Berkovic, CEO of the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe and author of Under My Hat, takes the reader into a sometimes mysterious world, reflecting on the meanings of the rituals and their place in the entirety of Jewish life.