An Evening with Nathan Englander 

      An Evening with Nathan Englander will be held 7:30 - 9 p.m. October 29 at Temple B'nai Israel, 3700 North Rodney Parham Road.  Mr. Englander is an award-winning author who published his first short story collection, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, in 1999.  Since its publication, Nathan has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Bard Fiction Prize, and four of his short stories have appeared in editions of

The Best American Short Stories.

      His second collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, won the 2012 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Nathan is also the translator for the New American Haggadah.

    The event is free.  It is sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Arkansas in partnership with the Sisterhoods of Temple B'nai Israel and Synagogue Agudath Achim. A reception and book signing will follow.

  For additional information, call Marianne Tettlebaum at 663-3571 or visit federation@jewisharkansas.org.