Book Club

The Book Circle will meet Thursday, November 17 at 4 pm, at the shul, with this month’s selection:

“A Cold Red Sunrise” by Stuart Kaminsky.

If you wish to join the club, please email ctigreenport@gmail.com with a message for Susan Rosenstreich, the group coordinator.

The Book Circle will meet on Friday, Oct. 21, at 4 p.m., at the shul, to explore a prize-winning family drama by Yaniv Iczkovits titled The Slaughterman’s Daughter, winner of the 2021 Wingate Prize and a finalist for a 2021 National Jewish Book Club Award.

Two  sisters take separate paths from their shtetl lives in Czarist Russia. One once considered following in her father’s footsteps as a ritual slaughterer. She may have abandoned the profession, but not the slaughter knife that she keeps tied to her leg as she sets off to find her sister’s husband, who has disappeared. The story has been described as a comedy of errors that somehow pits the Czar’s army against the Russian secret police. How it all sorts out makes for an imaginative work of fiction.

For more information about the Book Circle, email ctigreenport@gmail.com with a message for Susan Rosenstreich, coordinator of the group.

For its next meeting, the Book Circle has chosen The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem by Sarit Yishai-Levi. The group will gather on Thursday, August 25, at 4 p.m., in the community room of the synagogue.

This novel, a finalist in the 2016 National Jewish Book Awards, is set against the Golden Age of Hollywood, the dark days of WWII, and the swinging ‘70s. The story follows generations of women as they travel through the dramatic changes in the times of their lives. Reviewers have called the book “a powerful story of love and forgiveness.”

The Book Circle explores stories by Jewish writers and those focused on Jewish themes. For more information, email ctigreenport@gmail.com with a message for Susan Rosenstreich, coordinator of the group.