Nov
3
7:00 PM19:00

Ernestine Rose Discussion

I’ll be participating in an event at the Kosciuko Foundation with Norman Kelker on Rose’s life and influence. The Foundation is at 15 East 65th Street in Manhattan. I’ll have some of my Rose biographies, The Rabbi’s Atheist Daughter: Ernestine Rose, International Feminist Pioneer, for sale there. Please come!

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Mar
16
6:00 PM18:00

Online Talk: "Pioneering Women: Ernestine Rose"

On March 16th at 6 p.m. I’m giving a talk on Ernestine Rose for the Brooklyn Public Library. Here are the details:

In honor of Women's History Month, Midwood Library is pleased to present a virtual lecture and discussion on the life of women's rights activist Ernestine Rose. Join us for a lively discussion as distinguished author and historian Bonnie Anderson, a Brooklyn resident and a professor emerita of history at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, shares poignant insights on Ernestine Rose. 

Here is the Zoom link for the event.

Please register for the program to receive a reminder with the Zoom link via email the day of the event.

You can read more about Ernestine Rose in my latest book, The Rabbi's Atheist Daughter, available at the Brooklyn Public Library.

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Oct
25
to Dec 31

Talk on RBG

On Tuesday evening at 6 p.m. I’m giving a talk on Ruth Bader Ginsberg for the Cortelyou Public Library. I’ll be speaking for about 20 minutes and then taking questions. You can join the session by going to the Brooklyn Public Library site and then signing up. I’ll try to post it here as well.

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Feb
12
9:30 AM09:30

Article Published

My piece, "Transatlantic Freethinker, Feminist, and Pacifist: Ernestine Rose in the 1870s," has been published as the lead article in Forging Bonds Across Borders: Transatlantic Collaborations for Women's Rights and Social Justice in the Long Nineteenth Century in the Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, Supplement 13 (2017), pp. 17-33.  You can access it here

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Apr
19
6:30 PM18:30

CUNY Graduate Center Talk RESCHEDULED FOR APRIL 19

My talk on Ernestine Rose, cancelled because of Tuesday's snowstorm, will now be on WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19 in Room 9206 at the Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, between 34th and 35th Streets.  (If you saw a previous notice about April 12, that has changed, since it was during the Spring Break.)

Some books will be available for sale and if you bring a copy of course I will autograph it.  Books can be ordered from my website, bonnieanderson.com.

Hope to see you there!

Hope to see you there!

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Mar
28
6:00 PM18:00

Jewish Book Council Panel

A panel on the mobilization of Jewish women throughout U.S. history, chaired by Bari Weiss of The Wall Street Journal and including Lynn Povich, author of The Good Girls Revolt, Rebecca Traister, author of All the Single Ladies, and Bonnie Anderson, author of The Rabbi's Atheist Daughter.  Books will be available for sale.

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CUNY Graduate Center Talk CANCELLED!
Mar
14
6:00 PM18:00

CUNY Graduate Center Talk CANCELLED!

Due to the impending blizzard, the Graduate Center will be closed on March 14th.  The talk will be rescheduled and I will post the new date as soon as I have it.

A free event, hosted by the Women's Studies Program in Room 9205.  The Graduate Center is on the east of Fifth Avenue between 34th and 35th streets.  I will be speaking about my book.  A limited number of books will be available for sale, but you can also buy it ahead of time  and I will be happy to autograph it. 

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