Women's Reading Group

Generally we meet once a month in the Adult Library, 7:30-9 pm.

Feel free to come to our meetings whether you liked the book or not, or even if you haven't finished it.   

Click here for a list of books we have read previously.

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Our annual potluck last month was great! One of our members graciously offered her lovely home--we shared a delicious meal and then watched the Israeli film "Tel Aviv Stories."

 

Hard to believe that summer's over--it seemed very fast this year. At our August meeting some of the group really liked the book, but several agreed that it might have been better as a short story. Definitely interesting.

 

This month's book explores Jewish life in India. We'll meet September 22, to discuss Sophie Judah's Dropped from Heaven , at 7:30 pm in the Bet Midrash. 

 

We don't have confirmed dates for October and November, but we've decided to read and discuss the following books:

 

In October: The Volunteer: A Canadian's Secret Life in the Mossad Michael Ross

 

And, in November: A Shout in the Sunshine by Mara W. Cohen Ioannides (daughter of Brenda Cohen, a member of our book group)

All of our books can be ordered on-line through our Amazon link to earn a commission for the Synagogue.  Multiple copies of our selections are usually available at Border’s Bookstore and Princeton Public Library on the “Book Club” table on the ground floor.

 


 

Chronological list of books and topics:

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

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