Jewish Book Club

Interested in discussing books by and/or about Jewish people, events, or ideas? Join us for our every-other-month Sunday Book Club. Someone usually brings treats! This is not intended to be a women’s-only group; men are welcome.

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Some of the books we have discussed in the past few years are:

2019

• Last Days of Summer, Steve Kluger

2018

• Between Gods, Alison Pick
• The Adventures of Rabbi Harvey: A Graphic Novel of Jewish Wisdom and Wit in the Wild West, Steve Sheinkin
• Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution, Julia Alekseyeva
• Day After Night, Anita Diamant
• The Girl From Human Street, Roger Cohen
• Judas (1959 memoir) or other books by Amos Oz
• My People, Laura French

2017

• Norwegian By Night, Darrell Miller
  Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books, Aaron Lansky
  Marriage of Opposites, Alice Hoffman
• A Thread Of Grace, Mary Doria Russell:
• God Was in This Place and I, I Did Not Know, Lawrence Kusher
• The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Michael Chabon

2016

• The Beast, Faye Kellerman
• The Mathematician’s Shiva, Stuart Rojstaczer
• Boston Girl. Anita Diamant
• Love and Treasure, Ayelet Waldman
• The Golem & the Jinni, Helene Wecker

2015

• My Mother’s Shoes, Shirley Russak Wachtel
• The Lawgiver, Herman Wouk
• The List, Martin Fletcher
• My Promised Land, Ari Shavit

2014

• The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
• The Golem and the Jinni, Helene Wecker
• The Coffee Trader, David Liss T
• The Fortune Tellers Kiss, Brenda Serotte
• The Orientalist, Tom Reiss

2013

• Heir the the Glimmering World, Cynthia Ozick
• Clouds Against the Sun, Ellen Brazer (this one is best forgotten)
• A Guide for the Perplexed, Dara Horn
• The Girl from Foreign, Sadia Shepard
• The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon

Before 2012

• Peony, by Pearl Buck
• The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit, Lucette Lagnado
• The Dovekeepers, Alice Hoffman
• The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
• The Invisible Bridge, Julie Orringer
• The World to Come, Dara Horn
• In the Image, Dara Horn
• The Hare With the Amber Eyes, Edmund DeWaal