The Jewish Center’s Book Club reads and discusses books of Jewish interest.
Our Book Club usually meets on the third Tuesday of the month. Relax with a good book — and then join us for a lively and engaging discussion. Everyone is welcome to participate, whether you enjoyed the book or not, and even if you haven’t finished it.
Multiple copies of our selections are usually available at the Princeton Public Library on the “Book Club” shelves. Or you can purchase the book from Amazon. Every time you visit Amazon from our website, The Jewish Center earns up to 15% of each sale.
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Best wishes to all for wonderful Thanksgiving gatherings—such a great American holiday!
We have the following Book Club meetings planned:
Get ready for the upcoming title – June 17
Jews Don’t Count by David Baddiel
“…there apparently comes a time in the lives of those who write about Jewish identity when they have to decide whether to write about . . . it. “Antisemitism” is too clinical a term for what I mean…it doesn’t address the confusion and anxiety that Jews around the world have experienced in recent years—which is less about security guards at synagogues than about a much more subtle baseline reality of dismissing, shaming, and belittling by parts of the non-Jewish world. Baddiel’s book expresses the most difficult-to-articulate aspect of contemporary antisemitism: not the physical or even virtual attacks but the gaslighting that accompanies them, the…pervasive premise that such attacks are actually a form of righteous, if perhaps misguided, “punching up”—and that antisemitism… therefore does not exist. ” (Dara Horn for Jewish Review of Books)
In July we’ll meet at a member’s home at 6:00 p.m. for our annual Potluck Dinner and Book Swap.
To RSVP, and for more details, email louise@sandsmith.com
If you’d like your name removed from our email list, please let me know, but please remember that all other Book Club business should be sent to Louise.
Be safe! Stay well!
Regards,
– Donna
Take a look at our past books...
Anthony Horowitz’s Moonflower Murders
Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Plot
B.A. Shapiro’s The Collector’s Apprentice
David Biro’s This Magnificent Dappled Sea
Daniel Silva’s The Collector
Margalit Fox’s The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum
James McBride’s The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
Jodi Picoult’s The Storyteller
Pam Jenoff’s The Orphan’s Tale
Deborah Levy’s The Cost of Living
Daniel Silva’s The Other Woman
Talia Carner’s The Third Daughter
Dara Horn’s In the Image
Goldie Goldblum’s On Division
Rachel Kadish’s The Weight of Ink
Dani Shapiro’s The Inheritance
Isabella Hamad’s The Parisian
Evie Grossman’s Hidden in Berlin: A Holocaust Memoir
Colum McCann’s Apeirogon
Daniel Silva’s The Order