At the next Book Circle meeting, to be held on Thursday, July 25, at 3 p.m., in Andrew Levin Park, the group will study the effects on family members held for six years in an internment camp. Hazel Selzer Kahane has written a harrowing account of the experiences in A House in Lahore: Growing Up Jewish in Pakistan. Drawing on extensive boarding school correspondence, the book examines the power of letter writing to [...]
The Money Kings, by Daniel Schulman The saga of the German-Jewish immigrants — with now familiar names like Goldman and Sachs, Kuhn and Loeb, Warburg and Schiff, Lehman and Seligman — who influenced the rise of modern finance. These industrious immigrants would soon go from peddling trinkets and buying up shopkeepers’ IOUs to forming what would become some of the largest investment banks in the world. Schulman chronicles their paths to Wall Street dominance, as [...]
In its examination of Jewish Life in the South, the Book Circle’s selection for June evokes the rhythms and heartbeat of Jewish life in the Bible Belt. In the re-release of his book, The Provincials: A Personal History of Jews in the South, Eli Evan weaves together personal recollections while taking readers inside the nexus of southern and Jewish histories, from the earliest immigrants to present day. He offers stories of communities, individuals, and [...]
The Book Circle has chosen a graphic novel as its selection for the Thursday, May 16 meeting. The bookies will gather at 3 p.m. on Zoom for a look at Art Spiegleman’s Maus 1: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History, a “brutally moving work of art,” Amazon says. This is the bestselling first installment of the graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust,” said The [...]
The Postcard by Anne Berest Book Circle Choice of the Month! Thursday, April 25 at 3 PM On CTI Zoom Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest’s The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life, an enthralling investigation into family secrets, and poignant tale of a Jewish family devastated by the Holocaust and partly restored through the power of storytelling. For more information about The Book Circle email ctigreenport@gmail.com with a [...]
At its next meeting, to be held on Thursday, April 4 at 3 p.m., on Zoom, the Book Circle will consider a novel by Elizabeth Graver titled Kantika, a word translated from Ladino as “song.” In this work, readers will meet Rebecca Cohen and her family as they traverse four countries that test their endurance to maintain the family dynamic. The book group meets monthly to explore the writing of Jewish authors and/or [...]
Coming up at the Thursday, Feb. 22 meeting of the Book Circle, at 3 p.m. on Zoom, is a discussion about what happened on Chicken Hill, as related by James McBride in his bestselling National Book Award-winning novel The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, PA, were digging the foundations for a new development, they found a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was [...]
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir, Raja Shehadeh Father and son lawyers share goals, but are unable to appreciate each other’s politics. A Day In The Life of Abed Salama, Nathan Thrall. An account of daily life in the occupied West Bank. Enter Ghost, Isabella Hammad. A West Bank production of Hamlet explores the challenge of theater-making under occupation. Land of Hope and Fear, Isabel Kershner. A mosaic portrait [...]
Set against the backdrop of WWII, bestselling author Mitch Albom offers a powerful novel of hope, forgiveness and love in The Little Liar, a novel that explores the lives of three young people, forever changed by deception and the grace of redemption. Here, Albom confronts the destruction that lying can wreak on the world stage as well as individual lives. The Book Circle meets monthly to address books on Jewish themes by Jewish writers. [...]
The shul’s Book Circle group has chosen The Lock-Up, a globe-spanning crime novel by Booker prize-winner John Banville, as its December selection. The session will take place on Thursday, Dec. 21, at 3 p.m., on Zoom. When Rosa Jacobs is found dead in her car, the investigation leads two detectives to the mountaintops of Italy, the front lines of WWII Bavaria, the gritty streets of Dublin, and other unexpected settings in efforts to solve [...]
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