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December 1, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm 121 N Christopher Columbus Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA December 2, 2018 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm 276 E Napa St, Sonoma, CA 95476, USA December 6, 2018 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Labyrinth Books, 116 Nas*au St, Princeton, NJ 08542, USA December 7, 2018 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm McCuskers Market, 3 State St, Shelburne Falls, MA 01370, USA Jewish writers have long had a sense of place in the United States, and interpretations of American geography have appeared in Jewish American literature from the colonial era forward. But troublingly, scholarship on Jewish American literary history often limits itself to an immigrant model, situating the Jewish American literary canon firmly and inescapably among the immigrant authors and early environments of the early twentieth century. In A Hundred Acres of America, Michael Hoberman combines literary history and geography to restore Jewish American writers to their roles as critical members of the American literary landscape from the 1850s to the present, and to argue that Jewish history, American literary history, and the inhabitation of American geography are, and always have been, December 18, 2018 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm 20 E 127th St, New York, NY 10035, USA December 21, 2018 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm 62 Bayard St, Brooklyn, NY 11222, USA This holiday season, we wonder: Did Jews discover Chinese food on Christmas, or did Chinese restaurants discover Jewish customers? Join MOFAD and special guests in this immersive culinary and cultural experience to learn more about how these two communities found a seat at the same table. Visitors will explore this rich topic through comedy and lively conversations, and gain insight into the ways in which the migrations of global communities influenced what is now an annual tradition in New York City and throughout the nation. Live Chef Demo by Chef Julie Cole (Operations Manager & Chef, Nom Wah Tea Parlor) and tastings prepared by MOFAD's executive chef