The Book Circle will meet on Thursday, Oct. 22, at 3 p.m. on CTI Zoom to follow a three-century journey to home, as depicted in a Nicholas Lemann book, Returning: A Search For Home Across Three Centuries.

            The story delves deeply into the family, from their arrival in the 1830s as peddlers from Germany to plantation owners and department store owners in the aristocratic world of New Orleans where, despite wealth, they could never fit in. The writer uses his own family saga as a springboard to address antisemitism and how it continues to flourish after two thousand years.

            The Book Circle meets monthly to explore writings by Jewish authors and Jewish subject matter. For more information, email Susan Rosenstreich, coordinator of the group, at ctigreenport@gmail.com