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The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück, Lynne Olson
The true story of how an intrepid band of Frenchwomen resisted the Nazis in Hitler’s all-female concentration camp. They risked death for any infraction, but that did not stop them from defying the SS at every turn.
A Fool’s Kabbalah, Steve Stern
In the ruins of postwar Europe, the world’s leading expert on the Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism goes on a hair-raising journey to recover sacred books stolen by the Nazis or hidden by the Jews themselves in secret places throughout the ravaged continent.
Sons and Daughters, Chaim Grade
This novel provides a glimpse of a way of life that is no longer — the rich Yiddish culture of Poland and Lithuania that the Holocaust would eradicate — by one of the 20th century’s pre-eminent writers of Yiddish fiction. It illuminates the clash between the secular world and the life bound by religious duty.
Book Circle Delves Into Three Generations Of A Flamboyant Family
(This is the June selection. No Book Circle meeting in May)
The Book Circle will meet on Thursday, June 18, at 3:30 p.m. in the Andrew Levin Park garden at the synagogue, weather permitting. The June selection is Out of Egypt, a memoir by Andre Aciman.
Here, the author introduces us to the eccentrics who shaped his life — Uncle Vili, the strutting daredevil, soldier, statesman and spy; the two grandmothers, the Princess and the Saint, who gossip in six languages; and Aunt Flora, the German refugee. And through it all, we come to know a boy who, even as he longs for a wider world, does not want to be led, forever, out of Egypt.
For more information about the Book Circle, contact Susan Rosenstreich, coordinator of the group, at ctigreenport@gmail.com/.
Book Circle Explores Story of Jewish Refugees Who Fled To Shanghai
In the gripping historical novel, The Song of the Jade Lily, Kirsty Manning weaves together little-known threads of WWII history, family secrets, the past and the present.
In 1939, two young girls meet in Shanghai and form a friendship. But the realities of war prove to be too much , and they are torn apart. In 1916, the granddaughter of Romy, one of the young girls, learns about family secrets kept hidden for half a century. Alexandra struggles with what she learns, and is forced to question what she believes about her family and herself.
The Book Circle will meet again on Thursday, April 23, at 3:30 p.m. on CTI’s Zoom. The group meets monthly to explore books on Jewish themes and by Jewish writers. For more information, email Susan Rosenstreich at ctigreenport@gmail.com
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