The Book Circle will meet on Wednesday, Nov. 17, at 2 p.m., on Zoom, to discuss the selection of the month, A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg by Nathaniel Deutsch and Michael Casper.

The Hasidic community in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn is famously one of the most separatist and intensely religious groups of people in our country. By showing how Williamsburg’s Hasidim rejected assimilation while still undergoing distinctive forms of Americanization, Deutsch and Casper present a provocative history of a sect of American Jewry and a look at how race, real estate and religion intersected in the creation of a quintessential and deeply misunderstood New York neighborhood.

The book circle meets monthly to explore works about Jews and by Jewish writers. For information, call the shul at 631-477-0232 and leave a message for Susan Rosenstreich, coordinator.