BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:581@shearithisrael.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220914T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220914T200000 DTSTAMP:20220830T143134Z URL:https://www.shearithisrael.org/events/nina-wachsman/ SUMMARY:Nina Wachsman\, Author of The Gallery of Beauties\, in conversation with Shearith Israel trustee\, David Sable DESCRIPTION:Integration Without Assimilation: \nThe "Modern Jew" in Rennais ance Venice\nRegister here >\;>\;\nIn the city that invented the conce pt of the ‘Ghetto\,’ it is surprising to learn that the Jews lived sep arately but not isolated from the culture around them in the seventeenth c entury.  Rabbis were not only leaders in the Jewish community\, but schol ars\, mathematicians\, statesmen and playwrights who were well known and r espected in Venetian society and throughout Europe.  The music\, art and innovative foods which filled the city\, filtered into the Ghetto\, findin g its way into synagogues and homes.\n\nIn a salon-like discussion with tr ustee David Sable\, Nina Wachsman will bring to life this unusual city and its unusually modern Jews\, from her research for her novel of historical suspense\, The Gallery of Beauties. \n\n \;\n\nNina Wachsman graduat ed from Parsons School of Design where she studied illustration with Mauri ce Sendak. After a career as a former ad agency creative director\, she no w runs a digital marketing company. She’s written several short stories\ , and The Gallery of Beauties is her debut novel. Learn more about Nina an d this intriguing novel – about a notorious courtesan and the chief rabb i’s scholarly daughter who both somehow get caught up in an assassinatio n plot – at: venicebeauties.com. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.shearithisrael.org/wp-content/upload s/2022/08/Gallery-of-Beauties-cover-1-e1661368758710.jpeg CATEGORIES:Featured Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220313T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR