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Check out our schedule at-a-glance to quickly buy individual tickets for your favorite authors and speakers! Remember: you can buy a season pass to attend any event from the 2026-27 season at no extra cost.
| Start Time | Speaker | Book/Description | Location | GET TICKETS! |
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| Monday, October 12 | ||||
| 7 p.m. | Headliner: Lior Raz | Co-creator, screenwriter, and star of Netflix’s Fauda | The J - Staenberg Family Complex (Fitness & Wellness Building) | Reserve Tickets |
| Wednesday, October 21 | ||||
| 7 p.m. | Dr. Barak Benaryeh | The Vet Will See You Now: What Every Pet Owner Needs to Know (but Doesn’t) | The J - Staenberg Family Complex (Arts & Education Building) | Reserve Tickets |
| Monday, October 26 | ||||
| 7 p.m. | David Shlachter | Hinenu: Israel at Ten Million | The J - Staenberg Family Complex (Arts & Education Building) | Reserve Tickets |
National Jewish Book Month with The St. Louis Jewish Book Festival and Speaker Series |
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| Sunday, November 1 | ||||
| 7 p.m. | Women’s Night: Zibby Owens | Between Chapters: How I Started Over, Took Some Chances, and Found the Plot | The J - Staenberg Family Complex (Arts & Education Building) | Reserve Tickets |
| Monday, November 2 | ||||
| 7 p.m. | Headliner: Danny Meyer | What Could Possibly Go Right? The Essential Journey to Scale an Enduring Culture" | The J - Staenberg Family Complex (Arts & Education Building) | Reserve Tickets |
| Tuesday, November 3 | ||||
| 7 p.m. | Marc Shaiman | Never Mind the Happy: Showbiz Stories from a Sore Winner | The J - Staenberg Family Complex (Arts & Education Building) | Reserve Tickets |
| Wednesday, November 4 | ||||
| 7 p.m. | Niki Russ Federman & Josh Russ Tupper | Russ & Daughters: 100 Years of Appetizing | The J - Staenberg Family Complex in Creve Coeur (Arts & Education Building) | Reserve Tickets |
| Thursday, November 5 | ||||
| 11 a.m. | Janice Kaplan | What Your Body Knows About Happiness: How to Use Your Body to Change Your Mind | The J - Staenberg Family Complex (Arts & Education Building) | Reserve Tickets |
| 7 p.m. | Fiction Panel: Emily Matchar & Jenna Blum | The Lost Girl of Craven County and Murder Your Darlings | The J - Staenberg Family Complex (Arts & Education Building) | Reserve Tickets |
| Friday, November 6 | ||||
| 1 p.m. | Missouri’s Own Panel Professor Flora Cassen Professor Samuel Cohen Mark Heller Debbie Kimberg |
Stained Glass Banning Books in America Scoop Dreams & Rocky Roads A Blind Spot on Autism |
The J - Staenberg Family Complex (Arts & Education Building) | Reserve Tickets |
| Saturday, November 7 | ||||
| 7 p.m. | Dr. David Tuch | The Wireless Operator: The Untold Story of the British Sailor Who Invented the Modern Drug Trade | The J - Staenberg Family Complex (Arts & Education Building) | Reserve Tickets |
| Sunday, November 8 | ||||
| 1 p.m. | Bruce Feiler | A Time to Gather: How Ritual Created the World—and How It Can Save Us | Congregation B’nai Amoona | Reserve Tickets |
| Tuesday, November 10 | ||||
| 7 p.m. | Holocaust Memorial: Douglas Century | Crash of the Heavens: The Remarkable Story of Hannah Senesh and the Only Military Mission to Rescue Europe's Jews During World War II | St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum | Reserve Tickets |
Jewish Book Festival and Speaker Series December Events |
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| Thursday, December 3 | ||||
| 7 p.m. | Mark Oppenheimer | Judy Blume: A Life | The Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School (Gymnasium) | Reserve Tickets |
| Thursday, December 17 | ||||
| 7 p.m. | Arthur Gale Endowed “Jewish Lives” Series: Merryl Goldberg | Notes of Deception: How a Quartet of American Musicians Outwitted the KGB | St. Louis County Library - Clark Family Branch | Reserve Tickets |
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