TJC Book Club

 

Previous Selections

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson 
Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin 
Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
Aviva, My Love, video
Lovesong: Becoming a Jew by Julius Lester
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit by Lucette Lagnado
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Rashi's Daughters; Book One: Joheved by Maggie Anton
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter Godwin
The Girl from Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors by Sadia Shepard
Broccoli and other Tales of Food and Love by Lara Vapnyar
A Shout in the Sunshine by Mara Cohen Ioannides
The Volunteer: A Canadian's Secret Life in the Mossad by Michael Ross
Dropped from Heaven by Sophie Judah
The Triumph of Deborah by Eva Etzioni-Halevy
An Interrupted Life and Letters from Westerbork by Etty Hillesum
Dough by Mort Zachter
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Around Sarah's Table by Rivka Zakutinsky
Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
Living a Year of Kaddish: A Memoir by Ari Goldman
Snapshots by Michal Govrin
Too Many Men by Lily Brett 
Any Place I Hang my Hat by Susan Isaacs
The Garden of Ruth by Eva Etzioni-Halevy
My Long Journey Home by Lily Golden
Emma Lazarus by Esther (Starry) Schor
Shanghai Legacy by Marion Cuba
Peony by Pearl Buck
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Ester and Ruzya: How my Grandmothers Survived Hitler's War and Stalin's Peace by Masha Gessen
Breaking Trail by Arlene Blum
Swimming Toward the Ocean by Carole Glickfeld
Watermarks, video
House of Memory: Stories by Jewish Women Writers of Latin America by Marjorie Agosin
Where She Came From by Helen Epstein
Thoughts from a Queen-sized Bed by Mimi Schwartz
The White Rose by Jean Hanff Korelitz
Journey to the End of the Millenium by A.B. Yehoshua
In the Image by Dara Horn
 Broken Wings, video
Jews on Trial by Robert Garber
There are Jews in my House by Lara Vapnyar 
Sunday Jews by Hortense Callisher
The Book Borrower by Alice Mattison
Journey from the Land of No by Roya Hakakian
The Flying Camel by Loolwa Khazzoom
The Jew Store by Stella Suberman
Murder on a Kibbutz, A Communal Case by Batya Gur
Beyond Hitler’s Grasp: The Heroic Rescue of Bulgaria’s Jews by Michael Bar-Zohar
A Spiritual Life by Merle Feld
Hungry Hearts by Anzia Yezierska
Giving Up America by Pearl Abraham
Jane Austen in Boca by Paula M. Cohen
The Mezuzah in the Madonna’s Foot: Marranos and Other Secret Jews by Trudi Alexy
To Begin Again: The Journey Toward Comfort, Strength and Faith in Difficult Times by Naomi Levy
Comfort Me With Apples by Ruth Reichl
Displaced Persons by Joseph Berger
Three Daughters by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Book of Jewish Food by Claudia Roden
Kaaterskill Falls by Allegra Goodman
Persian Brides by Dorit Rabinyan
In My Hands by Irene Opdyke
Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl
When I Lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant
He, She and It by Marge Piercy
The Bialy Eaters by Mimi Sheraton
Raquela, Woman of Israel by Ruth Gruber
The Family Orchard by Nomi Eve
Louise Nevelson, A Passionate Life by Laurie Lisle
The River Midnight by Lillian Nattel
The Puttermesser Papers by Cynthia Ozick
Saturday Morning Murder by Batya Gur
Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska
Cry of the Peacock by Gina Nahai
Homicidal Intent by Vivian Schnaidman
The Five Books of Miriam by Ellen Frankel
To See You Again by Betty Schimmel
The Ghost of Hannah Mendes by Naomi Ragen
Flowers in the Blood by Gay Courter
Standing Again at Sinai by Judith Plaskow
Lovingkindness by Anne Roiphe
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
1185 Park Avenue by Anne Roiphe
Paradise Park by Allegra Goodman
The Ladies Auxiliary by Tova Mirvis
Miriam’s Kitchen by Barbara Ehrlich
Life Cycles by Debra Orenstein
Mikveh readings (selected by Rabbi Mychal)
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant