Previous Selections The Song of the Jade Lily by Kirsty Manning (Jan. 2021) Paris in the Present Tense by Mark Helprin (Dec. 2020) The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman (Nov. 2020) Inheritance by Dani Shapiro (Oct. 2020) The Parisian by Isabella Hammad (Sept. 2020) The Other Woman by Daniel Silva (Aug. 2020) The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy (July 2020) The Orphan's Tale by Pam Jenoff (June 2020) A Guide for the Perplexed by Dara Horn (May 2020) Uprooting the Poison Tree by Myra Weiner (April 2020) Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner (Feb. 2020) The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict (Jan. 2020) The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai On the Chocolate Trail by Deborah Prinz's The Last Watchman of Old Cairo by Michael David Lukas House of Spies by Daniel Silva Video: Itzhak The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg by Nicholas Dawidoff Sisters in Law by Lynda Hirshman The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild Eternal Life by Dara Horn Unforgettable: The Bold Flavors of Paula Wolfert's Renegade Life by Emily Kaiser Thelin The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon The Book of Separation by Tova Mirvis Bone Box by Faye Kellerman Jane Austen in Scarsdale by Paula Marantz Cohen Black Widow by Daniel Silva The Muralist by B. A. Shapiro Einstein on Race and Racism by Fred Jerome and Rodger Taylor Three Minutes in Poland by Glen Kurtz The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman/Danielle Willard Kyle Moonglow by Michael Chabon All Who go do not Return by Shulem Deen And After the Fire: A Novel by Lauren Belfer The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker. They May Not Mean to But They Do by Cathleen Schine. Hava Nagila - video Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean by Edward Kritzler Fabulous Small Jews by Joseph Epstein The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals that Brought Me Home by Jessica Fector A Pigeon and a Boy by Meir Shalev The Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown. An Island called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba by Ruth Behar The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman On the Move by Oliver Sacks In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume Bodies and Souls by Isabel Vincent Besa: The Promise - video The Goddess of Small Victories by Yannick Grannec Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence by Jonathan Sacks Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English by Natasha Solomons An American Bride in Kabul by Phyllis Chesler The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant Russ & Daughters: Reflections and Recipes from the House Herring Built by Mark Russ Federman My Russian Grandmother and her American Vacuum Cleaner by Meir Shalev The Woman who Defied Kings by Andrée Aelion Brooks Sister Rose's Passion - video All I Love and Know by Judith Frank A Bride for One Night by Ruth Calderon A Replacement Life: A Novel by Boris Fishman The Dream by Harry Bernstein My Father's Paradise by Ariel Sabar The Big Nap by Ayelet Waldman. An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris As a Driven Leaf by Milton Steinburg The House at Tyneford by Natasha Solomons Little Failure: A Memoir by Gary Shteyngart, Land of Promise - video My Promised Land by Ari Shavit Norwegian by Night by Derek Miller Jerusalem by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi Invisible Wall by Harry Bernstein Among the Janeites by Deborah Yaffe The Queen of the Jews by Judy Petsonk - discussion with author The Little Russian by Susan Sherman Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman The Glass Room by Simon Mawer The Flat - video The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman The Hare with the Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal The Next Best Thing by Jennifer Weinar I am Forbidden by Anouk Markovits This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper The Coffee Trader by Peer Liss The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot To the End of the Land by David Grossman Jerusalem Maiden by Talia Carner The Archivist by Martha Cooley The Little Book, a Novel by Seldon Edwards Still Here by Linda Grant The Fatigue Artist by Lynn Sharon Schwartz The Life Room by Jill Bialosky The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman The Genizah at the House of Shepher by Tamar Yellin The Messenger by Daniel Silva It Happened in Italy, Untold Stories of How the People of Italy Defied the Holocaust by Elizabeth Bettina Defiance - video The History of Love by Nicole Krauss Ex Libris by Ann Fadiman Day After Night by Anita Diamant How to Buy a Love of Reading by Tanya Egan Gibson. The People in the Street by Linda Grant In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner All Other Nights by Dara Horn The Power of One by Bruce Courtenay Pictures at an Exhibiton by Sara Houghteling Mazel by Rebecca Goldstein Arranged - video Victory Gardens of Brooklyn by Merrill Joan Gerber The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay Strand of a Thousand Pearls by Dorit Rabanyan The Clothes on their Backs by Linda Grant The Fruit of Her Hands: The Story of Shira of Ashkenaz by Michelle Cameron Fire in the Blood by Irene Nemirovsky Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by Grace Paley 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