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Book Circle Selection Combines Present-Day And Fictional Characters
The Book Circle will meet on Wednesday, May 18, at 4 p.m. (new time) to talk about The Muralist by B. A. Shapiro, a multi-theme novel exploring pre-WWII politics, European refugees, New York’s art scene, and the emergence of the American school of abstract expressionism.
Here, real-life artists Mark Rothko, Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock interact with Shapiro’s fictional Alizée Benoit in a frenzied attempt to solve a long-standing mystery in Benoit’s family.
The group meets monthly to explore works about Jews and by Jewish writers. For information, email the shul at ctigreenport@gmail.com with a message for Susan Rosenstreich, coordinator of the group.
Just Released, Brad Kolodny Book About Jewish Settlers Of Long Island
Brad Kolodny, who talked about the early synagogues of Long Island at the shul’s Lunch and Learn program in December 2021, has just published a new book, The Jews of Long Island 1705-1918. In this book, the writer tells the stories of Jewish communities on Long Island, and how they were established and developed. His research confirms what we know about the early Jewish settlement in Greenport and the building of our shul more than 100 years ago. Peddlers, farmers and factory workers struggling to make better lives for their families moved east, out of the poverty and congestion of New York City.
Included in Brad Kolodny’s book are census records, newspaper accounts, photos, and personal family histories. More than 4,400 names of people who lived in Nassau and Suffolk counties prior to the end of WWI are listed. The writer told The Shofar that the book contains a chapter dedicated to Greenport, including the names of every Jewish resident at that time.
Book Circle Continues To Study Doerr Fantasy
The Book Circle will meet again on Wednesday, April 20, at 3 p.m. on Zoom, to continue exploring the inventiveness of Anthony Doerr’s much-anticipated novel, Cloud Cuckoo Land, a followup to his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, All the Light We Cannot See.
Cloud Cuckoo Land is a book about a book as told through sets of characters in past, present and future time periods. The group meets monthly to explore works about Jews and by Jewish writers. For information, email the shul at ctigreenport@gmail.com with a message for Susan Rosenstreich, coordinator of the group.
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