Kol Nashim Book Group
Upcoming Sessions
1. Tuesday, December 17, 2024 • 16 Kislev 5785
7:30 PM2. Tuesday, January 21, 2025 • 21 Tevet 5785
7:30 PM3. Tuesday, February 18, 2025 • 20 Shevat 5785
7:30 PM4. Tuesday, March 18, 2025 • 18 Adar 5785
7:30 PM5. Tuesday, April 22, 2025 • 24 Nisan 5785
7:30 PM6. Tuesday, May 20, 2025 • 22 Iyyar 5785
7:30 PM7. Tuesday, June 17, 2025 • 21 Sivan 5785
7:30 PMPast SessionsTuesday, November 19, 2024 • 18 Cheshvan 5785 - 7:30 PM
Tuesday, October 15, 2024 • 13 Tishrei 5785 - 7:30 PM
Tuesday, September 17, 2024 • 14 Elul 5784 - 7:30 PM
Tuesday, August 20, 2024 • 16 Av 5784 - 7:30 PM
Tuesday, July 16, 2024 • 10 Tammuz 5784 - 7:30 PM
All TI members are welcome, including those who haven't finished or even started the book. The group goes till 9 pm or until people run out of things to say.
For reminder emails, location and Zoom links, TI members can contact Janice Mehler via the ShulCloud Directory (you must be logged in to access the directory).
Upcoming 2024-2025 Reads:
Nov: Christ Stopped at Eboli
by Carlo Levi (translated from Italian, originally published in 1947, 268 pages)
Levi spent a year as an antifascist political prisoner in a town in Southern Italy. This is his account of people who lived as their ancestors had for centuries. A classic, and does have Jewish content despite the name.
December: The Red Balcony
by Jonathan Wilson (2023, 260 pages)
Set in Mandatory Palestine, a British Jew is sent as assistant to the defense counsel in the trial of the two men accused of murdering a leader of the Jewish community in Palestine whose efforts to get Jews out of Hitler’s Germany and into Palestine may have been controversial enough to get him killed. Plus a star-crossed romance.
Jan: Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict
by Oren Kessler (2023, 230 pages plus notes)
A nearly-forgotten uprising by Palestinians that lasted three years and radicalized both Jewish and Arab communities.
February: Garden of the Finzi-Continis
by Giorgio Bassani
Relationship between the protagonist and the Finzi-Contini family from WWI to the rise of fascism.
March: Foreign bodies: pandemics, vaccines, and the health of nations
by Simon Schama (2023, ~400 pages)
Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring: This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19. But as Simon Schama shows in his epic history of vulnerable humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the ingenuity of science, it has happened before. The central character is Jewish.
April: The Hebrew Teacher
by Maya Arad (2023, 300 pages)
Three novellas set in the SF Bay Area concentrating on life for Israelis there. First work to be published in English by this young leading Israeli author.
May: On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice
by Adam Kirsch (2024, 139 pages)
This is a clear exposition of a fairly new way of thinking about nations built on replacing indigenous people and cultures. It is directly and currently apt.
June: The Hidden Palace: A Novel of the Golem and the Jinni
by Helen Wecker (2021, 436 pages)
In this enthralling historical epic, set in New York City and the Middle East in the years leading to World War I Helene Wecker follows Chava and Ahmad as they confront unexpected new challenges in a rapidly changing human world.
July: The Amen effect: ancient wisdom to mend our broken hearts and world
by Sharon Brous (2024, 218 pages)
An inspiring book about community and connection, and the many vehicles by which they come. It draws on Jewish wisdom and contemporary social science.
August: Three Floors Up
by Eshkol Nevo (283 pages)
Residents of three floors of an upper middle class Tel Aviv apartment building deal with their different situations and stresses that reflect and expose modern Israeli society.
September: The Incorruptibles
by Dan Slater (2024, 300 pages plus notes and illustrations)
This is a deep dive into the early 1900s and the Jewish role in crime in NYC. Some of it was shocking and upended some aspects of the more warm and rosy picture presented in other books,
Books from the 2023-2024 season:
January — The Family Markowitz by Allegra Goodman
February — Jerome Robbins: A Life in Dance by Wendy Lesser
March — The Postcard by Anne Berest
April — Plunder by Menachem Kaiser
May — Kantika by Elizabeth Graver
June — My Friend Anne Frank by Hannah Pick-Goslar with Dina Kraft
July — Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
August — Golda Meir by Deborah Lipstadt
September - Mother India by Tova Reich
2023 READS:
January —The Prison Minyan by Jonathan Stone
February —War of Shadows: Codebreakers Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East by Gershom Gorenberg
March —The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen
April —People Love Dead Jews by Dara Horn
May — The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
June — East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity" by Philippe Sands
July — The Tunnel by A.B. Yehoshua
August — Barbra Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power by Neil Gabler
October — Spies of No Country: Israel's Secret Agents at the Birth of the Mossad by Matti Friedman
November — Single Jewish Male Seeking Soulmate by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
December — Once We Were Slaves: the Extraordinary Journey of a Multiracial Jewish Family by Laura Arnold Leibman
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Sat, December 7 2024
6 Kislev 5785
UPCOMING EVENTS
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Saturday ,
DecDecember 7 , 2024Shabbat Morning Services
Shabbat, Dec 7th 9:00a
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Saturday ,
DecDecember 7 , 2024
Shabbat, Dec 7th 10:00a
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Saturday ,
DecDecember 7 , 2024Tot Shabbat - Rhythm 'n' Ruach
Shabbat, Dec 7th 11:00a
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Sunday ,
DecDecember 8 , 2024Club BBK
Sunday, Dec 8th 9:15a
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Sunday ,
DecDecember 8 , 2024Morning Minyan
Sunday, Dec 8th 9:15a
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Sunday ,
DecDecember 8 , 2024Reconsidering Jewish Migration to the US
Sunday, Dec 8th 10:30a
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Monday ,
DecDecember 9 , 2024Parashat Hashavua Class
Monday, Dec 9th 11:00a
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Monday ,
DecDecember 9 , 2024Hebrew Fiction Group
Monday, Dec 9th 1:00p
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Wednesday ,
DecDecember 11 , 2024Beginning Biblical Hebrew
Wednesday, Dec 11th 12:00p
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Thursday ,
DecDecember 12 , 2024Intermediate Hebrew-Beginning Tanach
Thursday, Dec 12th 10:30a