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The Book Circle Selection Offers View Of History Through Fiction
The shul’s Book Circle group has chosen My Mother’s Secret: A Novel of the Jewish Autonomous Region by Alina Adams as its October selection, to be discussed on Thursday, Oct. 12, 3:30 p.m., in the shul’s community room.
For this novel, the author has drawn on her own experience as a Jewish refugee from Odessa, USSR, as she provides readers a glimpse into the world’s first Jewish Autonomous Region. The novel is rooted in detailed research about a little known chapter of Soviet and Jewish history.
The Book Circle meets monthly to explore works by Jewish writers and topics meaningful to Jewish readers. For more information, email ctigreenport@gmail.com with a message for Susan Rosenstreich, coordinator of the group.
The Book Circle Selection Renders A View Of Present-Day Palestine
The shul’s Book Circle group has chosen a novel focused on Palestine and the competing lives of sisters brought together after many years. Can they relate to each other, to the Palestine both knew as children, and to what is before them as they navigate the history, culture and politics of their homeland?
The Books Circle meets monthly to explore works by Jewish writers and the topics meaningful to Jewish readers.
The current selection, “Enter Ghost” by Isabella Hammad, will be discussed at the upcoming meeting of the group, to be held on Thursday, Sept. 21, at 3:30 p.m., in the community room at the shul. For more information, email ctigreenport@gmail.com with a message for Suzy Rosenstreich, coordinator of the group.
Random reads
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial, Deborah Cohen
Winner of the Mark Lynton History Prize, this historian’s account of a close-knit band of famous American reporters — John Gunther, H.R. Knickerbocker, Vincent Sheean and Dorothy Thompson — who, in the run-up to WWII, landed exclusive interviews and helped shape what Americans knew about the world at that time.
The Pages, Hugo Hamilton
With Germany under the Nazis as the background, this book explores censorship, oppression and violence through real and invented characters seeking survival, and the connections between past and present.
The book was a popular choice of the shul’s Book Circle group for its July meeting.
Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Writers, Outsiders, and the Spanish Civil War, Sarah Watling
An account of the women artists and activists whose determination to live and to create with courage and conviction took them as far as the Spanish Civil War. The book is reminiscent of the tumultuous politics evident in the world today.
— Compiled by Miriam Gabriel
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