Do you like to read and then talk about the book (with some wine and snacks)?
Then come join Bet Am’s Jewish-themed book club!
2023 Meetings:
- Tuesday, January 3: The Day of Atonement by David Liss
- Tuesday, February 7: The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France by James K. McAuley (James Kelly)
- Thursday, March 9: Moving Kings by Joshua Cohen
- Thursday, April 13: American Pastoral by Phillip Roth
- Tuesday, May 9: My Father’s Paradise – A Son’s Search for his Family’s Past by Ariel Sabar
- Tuesday, June 13: Sadness is a White Bird by Moriel Rothman_Zecher
- Thursday, July 13: The Gallery of Vanished Husbands by Natasha Solomons
- Tuesday, August 15: Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
For more information contact Amy Weiner.
We hope to see you there!
The books we’ve read:
2023
- Day of Atonement by David Liss
- The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France by James McAuley
2022
- The Tunnel by A.B. Yehoshua
- The Last Kings of Shanghai by Jonathan Kaufman
- Naameh by Sarah Blake
- The Light of Days: the Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos by Judy Battalion
- Day of Atonement by David Liss
- Morningside Heights by Joshua Henkin
- People Love Dead Jews by Dara Horn
- Drafted: A Memoir of the ‘60’s by Eugene Meyer
- City of Secrets by Stewart O’Nan
- 36 Arguments for the Existence of God by Rebecca Goldstein
- Diary of a Lonely Girl by Miriam Karpilove
2021
- The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow.
- A Broken Hallelujah: Rock and Roll, Redemption, and the Life of Leonard Cohen by Liel Leibovitz
- Florence Adler Swims Forever: A novel by Rachel Beanland
- Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish
- Waking Lions by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
- The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
- The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
- The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
- People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
- Nuestra America: MY family in the vertigo of translation by Claudio Lomnitz
- The Third Daughter by Talia Carner
2020
- Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal
- The Brothers Ashkenazi by IJ Singer
- Lake Success by Gary Shteyngart
- Mother India by Tova Reich
- A Rich Brew: How Cafes Changed Modern Jewish Culture by Shachar Pinsker
- When we were Arabs by Massoud Hayoun
- Guide for the Perplexed: A Novel Paperback by Dara Horn
- My Russian Grandmother and her American Vacuum Cleaner by Meir Shalev
- Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean by Edward Kritzler
- Fierce Attachments by Vivan Gornick
- When We Were Arabs by Massoud Hayoun
2019
- Henna House – Nomi Eve
- Kaddish.com – Nathan Englander
- The Hilltop – Assaf Gavron
- Outwitting History – Aaron Lansky
- Morning in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa
- Letters to my Palestinian Neighbor by Yossi Klein Halevi.
- Catch 67 by Micah Goodman
- The Button Man by Andrew Gross
- A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz.
- We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter