Join Vermont Author Jack Mayer for a discussion: “How Germany’s Weimar Democracy Became the Third Reich: The history that inspired Jack Mayer's historical fiction BEFORE THE COURT OF HEAVEN” $15
The award-winning true story of Irena Sendler, who organized the rescue of 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto and the 3 Kansas girls who rescued her forgotten story and told the world. $15.
A 2-hour program with Powerpoint slides. $15
Lunch and Learn: Life in a Jar with author Jack Mayer
Saturday, November 3, 2018, Lunch at 11:30 am, Learn at 11:45 am
Jack Mayer's book Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project has won several awards. It’s a non-fiction account of a Polish Catholic social worker, Irena Sendler, who rescued 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto.
Pre-orders for signed and personalized copies are available, 60% of the royalties from the sale of Life in a Jar are donated to the Irena Sendler/Life in a Jar Foundation. To pre-order a copy, please email Chris at Office@uvjc.org.
Jack Mayer will be speaking in Middlebury at 6 pm at the Marquis Theater with Jason Lutes, Vermont-based cartoonist and author of the graphic novel omnibus BERLIN, a 20 year literary masterpiece of historical fiction about the decline of the Weimar Republic and the rise of fascist extremism in 1930s Germany.
Get the details here: https://www.vermontbookshop.com/event/jason-lutes-jack-mayer-get-lit-marquis
A 2-hour program with Powerpoint slides. $20.
for OLLI members
Join Vermont Author Jack Mayer for a discussion: “How Germany’s Weimar Democracy Became the Third Reich: The history that inspired Jack Mayer's historical novel BEFORE THE COURT OF HEAVEN.”
Free and open to the public
Before the Court of Heaven is based on the true story of a fascist assassin, Ernst Werner Techow and his turning from evil. Three themes impel this novel: understanding the rise of Nazism, unfathomable forgiveness, and the complexity of redemption. A portrait of Germany between world wars, from revolution and unrest following World War I to the rise of the Nazis, World War II and the Holocaust, Before the Court of Heaven portrays ordinary people becoming complicit in extraordinary crimes.
Co-sponsored by the Vermont Humanities Council
Co-sponsored by the Vermont Humanities Council and the AAUW (American Assoc. of University Women)
Co-sponsored by the Vermont Humanities Council
Join Vermont Author Jack Mayer for a discussion: “How Germany’s Weimar Democracy Became the Third Reich: the history that inspired my novel, BEFORE THE COURT OF HEAVEN.”
Free and open to the public
Before the Court of Heaven is based on the true story of a fascist assassin, Ernst Werner Techow and his turning from evil. Three themes impel this novel: understanding the rise of Nazism, unfathomable forgiveness, and the complexity of redemption. A portrait of Germany between world wars, from revolution and unrest following World War I to the rise of the Nazis, World War II and the Holocaust, Before the Court of Heaven portrays ordinary people becoming complicit in extraordinary crimes.
Co-sponsored by the Vermont Humanities Council
Woodstock Area Jewish Community Congregation Shir Shalom - 493 Route 4 W, Woodstock, VT 05091 - (802) 457-4840
Vermont author Jack Mayer gives a slide presentation and discussion about the history that inspired his new historical novel, BEFORE THE COURT OF HEAVEN, which has received 13 book awards: www.jackmayer.net Free. Co-sponsored by the Vermont Humanities Council.
BEFORE THE COURT OF HEAVEN is based on the true story of a fascist assassin, Ernst Techow, and his complex and harrowing redemption. Techow participates in the 1922 murder of Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau, the highest-ranking Jew in the Weimar Republic. The novel is inspired by the history of how Germany’s Weimar democracy became the Third Reich – how ordinary Germans became complicit in extraordinary crimes.
“Haunting echoes of Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago. . . “ US Review of Books
“. . . a strong, affecting novel . . . a story of immense human failure and touching redemption . . . it stands among the finer recent portrayals in fiction of the most troubling era of modern history.” - Jay Parini – Novelist, poet, essayist and D.E. Axinn Prof. of English and Creative Writing, Middlebury College – author of The Last Station.
Exact time TBA
The story of an unsung Holocaust hero who rescued 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto and the three Kansas teens who rescued her forgotten story. Pot-luck 6 pm and presentation at 7 pm.
I will be interviewed by Christine Moriarty on WDEV's Open Mike program on Monday, June 5th at 10 am. Hope you can listen in on our conversation about BEFORE THE COURT OF HEAVEN.
Listen on-line here: http://wdevradio.com/open-mike/
The history that inspired my novel, Before the Court of Heaven. One-night workshop at CVU. $20.
The history that inspired my novel, Before The Court of Heaven.
CVU ACCESS adult education program:
$20 registration fee
The history that inspired my novel, Before The Court of Heaven.
The history that inspired my novel, Before The Court of Heaven.
The history that inspired my novel, Before The Court of Heaven.
Co-sponsored by the Vermont Humanities Council and Recycled Reading.
Author Jack Mayer will discuss his new novel, Before the Court of Heaven. Historical fiction based on the true story of a fascist assassin, Ernst Werner Techow and his turning from evil. Three themes impel this novel: understanding the rise of Nazism, unfathomable forgiveness, and the complexity of redemption. A portrait of Germany between world wars, from revolution and unrest following World War I to the rise of the Nazis, World War II and the Holocaust, Before the Court of Heaven portrays ordinary people becoming complicit in extraordinary crimes.
Tickets are $3 per person. Each ticket comes with a $5 coupon good toward the purchase of the featured book.
Author Jack Mayer will discuss his new novel, Before the Court of Heaven. Historical fiction based on the true story of a fascist assassin, Ernst Werner Techow and his turning from evil. Three themes impel this novel: understanding the rise of Nazism, unfathomable forgiveness, and the complexity of redemption. A portrait of Germany between world wars, from revolution and unrest following World War I to the rise of the Nazis, World War II and the Holocaust, Before the Court of Heaven portrays ordinary people becoming complicit in extraordinary crimes.
Author Jack Mayer will discuss his new novel, Before the Court of Heaven. Historical fiction based on the true story of a fascist assassin, Ernst Werner Techow and his turning from evil. Three themes impel this novel: understanding the rise of Nazism, unfathomable forgiveness, and the complexity of redemption. A portrait of Germany between world wars, from revolution and unrest following World War I to the rise of the Nazis, World War II and the Holocaust, Before the Court of Heaven portrays ordinary people becoming complicit in extraordinary crimes.
Co-sponsored by the Vermont Humanities Council and The Flying Pig Bookstore.
Author Jack Mayer will discuss his new novel, Before the Court of Heaven. Historical fiction based on the true story of a fascist assassin, Ernst Werner Techow and his turning from evil. Three themes impel this novel: understanding the rise of Nazism, unfathomable forgiveness, and the complexity of redemption. A portrait of Germany between world wars, from revolution and unrest following World War I to the rise of the Nazis, World War II and the Holocaust, Before the Court of Heaven portrays ordinary people becoming complicit in extraordinary crimes.
Join author Jack Mayer for a reading and book signing event in Newport, Vermont at the Goodrich Memorial Library as part of the Newport Fall Foliage Festival’s "Newport is for Book Lovers.”
Jack will discuss his new novel, Before the Court of Heaven. Historical fiction based on the true story of a fascist assassin, Ernst Werner Techow and his turning from evil. Three themes impel this novel: understanding the rise of Nazism, unfathomable forgiveness, and the complexity of redemption. A portrait of Germany between world wars, from revolution and unrest following World War I to the rise of the Nazis, World War II and the Holocaust, Before the Court of Heaven portrays ordinary people becoming complicit in extraordinary crimes.
Co-sponsored by the Vermont Humanities Council and The Vermont Book Shop
Jack Mayer
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Signed and personalized copies of BEFORE THE COURT OF HEAVEN can be purchased at The Vermont Book Shop in Middlebury (802-388-2061) or on-line: http://www.vermontbookshop.com/book/9780984111343
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