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TOWER OF BABEL Jerome Charyn discusses and signs “Savage Shorthand: The Life and Death of Isaac Babel” (Random House), his biography of the Russian-Jewish short story writer. Friday, 7 p.m. Barnes & Noble Upper West Side, 2289 Broadway at 82nd Street, 212-362-8835, free.


DNA ID Robert Shaler discusses his book “Who They Were: Inside the World Trade Center DNA Story: The Unprecedented Effort To Identify the Missing” (Free Press). Mr. Shaler directed the office of the New York City Medical Examiner when it conducted the historic forensic DNA investigation. Friday, 7 p.m., Borders Books Kips Bay, 576 Second Ave. at 32nd Street, 212-685-3938, free.


MOTHER MEMORIES WNYC’s Leonard Lopate talks with Brooklyn writer Tara Bray Smith about her book “West of Then” (Simon & Schuster), a memoir about her search for her drug-addicted mother in Hawaii, where she grew up. The reading is part of the series Brooklyn Writers for Brooklyn Readers. Saturday, 2 p.m., Brooklyn Public Library, Central Library, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, 718-230-2100, free.


LIFE OF RABBI Warren Kozak reads from his book “The Rabbi of 84th Street: The Extraordinary Life of Haskel Besser” (HarperCollins) at a 68th Street synagogue. The book tells the true story of a Chasidic rabbi who escaped to Palestine in the late 1930s and later moved to New York City. Sunday, 2-3:30 p.m., Jewish Historical Society, 164 E. 68th St., between Third and Lexington avenues, 212-737-6900, free.


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