United Jewish Federation of Tidewater & Simon Family JCC's Lee & Bernard Jaffe Family Jewish Book Festival 2024

For over 40 years, this annual celebration of Jewish writers, books, and ideas has featured authors from various backgrounds who have written about diverse topics. Featured author events allow the community to engage with bestselling and up-and-coming writers.

Schedule of Events

7:30PM - 9:30pm: Stuart E. Eizenstat: Jewish Book Festival

Go inside the room of high-stakes global negotiations-from the Vietnam War to the Iranian Nuclear Accord—with lessons from top diplomats and world leaders, gripping firsthand accounts, and exclusive interviews.

In one readable volume, diplomat and negotiator Stuart E. Eizenstat covers every major contemporary international agreement, from the treaty to end the Vietnam War to the Kyoto Protocols and the Iranian Nuclear Accord. Written from the perspective that only a participant in top-level negotiations can bring, Eizenstat recounts the events that led up to the negotiation and the drama that took place around the table and draws lessons from successful and unsuccessful strategies and tactics. Based on interviews with over 60 key figures in American diplomacy, including former presidents and secretaries of state and major political figures abroad, Eizenstat provides an intimate view of diplomacy as today’s history. The Art of Diplomacy provides invaluable insights into the art of negotiation.

Stuart E. Eizenstat has served as U.S. Ambassador to the European Union and Deputy Secretary of both Treasury and State. He is also the author of "President Carter: The White House Years" (2018), "The Future of the Jews: How Global Forces are Impacting the Jewish People, Israel, and Its Relationship with the United States" (2012), and "Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor, and the Unfinished Business of World War II" (2003). He is an international lawyer in Washington, DC.