1st Wednesday of the Month TBE Library 2:45pm-4:15pm
September 4, 2019 The Tattooist of Auschwitz
by Heather Morris
Reviewed by: Russ Bogen
Imprisoned for more than two and a half years at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Lale Sokolow, a Slovakian Jew, is put to work as a t
attooist. Risking his own life, Lale uses his privileged position to keep his fellow prisoners alive.
October 2, 2019 Kaddish.com
by Nathan Englander
Reviewed by Russ Bogen
Nathan Englander gives us an irreverent, irresistible novel with this sharp masterpiece about a son's failure about a son’s failure to say Kaddish for his father.
2019 The Rebbe
by Joseph Telushkin
Reviewed by Judi Bayer
In this enlightening biography Telushkin gives us a captivating portrait of the late Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, who turned his movement, Chabad-Lubavitch, into a dynamic organization within the Jewish world.|
December 4,2019 My Mother’s Son
by David Hirshberg
Reviewed by Carol Kaplan
In his vi
vid portrait of the Jewish world of the 1950’s, Hirshberg allows his reader to eavesdrop on complicated family matters clouded by years of denial and secrecy.
January 8, 2020 (note special date) The Gown
by Jennifer Robson
Reviewed by Tina Friedman
Robson’s nov
el embroiders life, friendship, and hope in post-war London where she illuminates the story behind Queen Elizabeth’s wedding dress involving the work of two embroiderers, one of whom survived the Nazis.
February 5, 2020 The Kabbalah Master
by Perle Besserman
Reviewed by Judi Bayer
Besserman’s novel, set in Coney Island in 1972, brings us into Sharon Berg’s world, one in which she seeks to make a life for herself and her family through her journey and commitment to Hasidism.
March 4, 2020 Wherever There is Light
by Peter Golden
Reviewed by Elizabeth Bakst
In this love story for the a
ges, Golden introduces his reader to Kendall and Julian in 1938 when the former is a free-spirited African American college senior and the latter is a Jewish immigrant from Germany. We follow their in-again, off-again love affair for thirty years.
April 1,2020 The Song of the Jade Lily
by Kirsty Manning
Reviewed by Gail Margolis
An evocative, multi
-layered story of the Jewish refugees who fled to Shanghai during World War II.
May 6th, 2019 Book Selection for next season
Join us as we discuss choices and vote on the book selection for next season.
All are welcome to join us for these lively and interesting meetings! Contact Carol Kaplan at ckaplan550@aol.com or the Temple Office for more information.
