books

As I was saying …

The title story in Nathan Englander’s latest collection, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank,” follows two couples sitting around a kitchen table and engaging in an alcohol-fueled discussion of history, the embrace or rejection of Jewish tradition and the Holocaust. Word for Word, the San Francisco theater ensemble, will bring this charged story to life in a staged reading of Englander’s work.

7 p.m. Monday, April 1 at JCC of San Francisco, 3200 California St., S.F. $10-$15. http://www.jccsf.org

saturday/23

Book talk with Marty Brounstein. Author presents “Two Among the Righteous Few: A Story of Courage in the Holocaust.” At St. Teresa of Avila Church, 1490 19th St., S.F. 6:30 p.m. Free. (415) 494-7222. Also March 24 at Unity Palo Alto, 3391 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. 12:30 p.m. Free. (650) 494-7222.

thursday/4

Book talk by Joy Ladin. The first openly transgender professor at an Orthodox Jewish university discusses her book on her experiences, “Through the Door of Life.” At Temple Emanu-El, 1010 University Ave., San Jose. 7 p.m. $5-$7. http://www.jvalley.org.