Quail Ridge Books Press Release

November 1, 2017 (Raleigh, NC) – Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh’s oldest independent bookstore and a mecca for Triangle-wide bibliophiles, will start the holidays off this year with a book reading/signing event for Jewish storyteller Scott Hilton Davis on Sunday, November 26, starting at 2 p.m.

The founder of Raleigh-based Jewish Storyteller Press and a seven-time Emmy Award-winning public television producer, Davis will introduce the Quail Ridge crowd to his newest book Chanukah Tales from Oykvetchnik. The event is free and open to the public.

The 118-page book is a collection of eight short stories by Scott Davis—one for each night of Chanukah—that celebrate Jewish history, culture, and values. The stories take readers into “Oykvetchnik” (Oy + kvetch + nik), a tiny shtetl town in Eastern Europe. And for those who may not be familiar with the Jewish/Yiddish terms that appear in the stories, Davis includes a glossary.

“We recommend this book for children and adult of all ages,” the venerable bookstore notes on its Events Calendar.

Jack Magnus, a book critic with Readers’ Favorite.com, writes, ““Laced through the collection is humor, faith, miracles and love, and freshly fried latkes that had my mouth watering as I read.”

After he reads a tale or two and takes questions from the audience, the author will sign copies of Chanukah Tales from Oykvetchnik that will be available for purchase (paperback, $9.95; hardcover $16.95).

In its new two-story, 9000-square-foot space in North Hills Shopping Center, Quail Ridge Books is located at 4209 Lassiter Mill Road, No. 100, Raleigh, NC 27609. For more information, visit www.quailridgebooks.com.

Scott Hilton Davis is a lifelong storyteller, Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, and collector of Jewish short stories from 19th-century Eastern Europe. He is the author of Souls Are Flying! A Celebration of Jewish Stories and the editor of the first English translation of Jacob Dinezon’s collection of autobiographical short stories, Memories and Scenes: Shtetl, Childhood, Writers. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.