For lively discussions of important books, mostly fiction, that deal with issues or themes of Jewish interest, consider joining the Book Club. Upcoming sessions are as follows.

2007:

Apr 22: Continued discussion of “Swann’s Way”
Mar 25: “Combray,” the first section of “Swann’s Way” by Marcel Proust
Feb 25: Collected Stories of Isaac Babel
Jan 28: “1920 Diary” by Isaac Babel

2006:

Dec 10: “Dark Star” by Alan Furst
Oct. 29: “Suite Francaise” by Irene Nemerovsky
Sept. 10: Roth’s “The Human Strain”
June 18: Dara Horn’s first novel, “In the Image”
Jun 4, 2006: Short Story Collection
May 14, 2006: “Heir to the Glimmering World” by Cynthia Ozick
(No meeting in April)
Mar 5, 2006: “Story of a Life” by Aharon Appelfeld
Jan 29, 2006: “The Plot Against America” by Philip Roth

2005:

Dec 4, 2005: Grossman’s “See Under Love”
Oct 16, 2005: Oz’s “A Tale of Love and Darkness”
Sep 18, 2005: Bellow’s “The Victim”
May 15, 7:30 PM: Saul Bellow’s “Him with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories”
Apr. 10, 7:00 PM: Amos Oz’s “Panther in the Basement”
Mar. 6, 2005: “Someone to Run With” by David Grossman
Jan. 23, 2005: “Old School” by Tobias Wolff

2004:

Dec 19: “Liberated Bride” by A.B. Yehoushua
Nov 21: “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities” by Delmore Schwartz
Sept 26: “The Centaur in the Garden” by Moacyr Scliar
May 16, 6:30 PM: “Focus” by Arthur Miller
Apr. 11, 7:30 PM: “The Rise of David Levinsky” by Abraham Cahan
Feb. 29, 7:00 PM: “The Russian Debutante’s Handbook” by Gary Shteyngart
Jan. 25, 7:00 PM: “Turbulent Souls” by Stephen J. Dubner

2003:

Dec 14: “The Pagan Rabbi & Other Stories” by Cynthia Ozick
Nov 16: “My Own Ground” and selected stories by Hugh Nissenson, with the author present
Oct. 26, 7:00 PM: “A Man and A Woman and A Man” by Savyon Liebrect, plus the Eileen Pollack short story, “The Rabbi in the Attic”
Sept 14: “Baumgartner’s Bombay” by Anita Desai
June 8, 6:30 PM: “The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz” by Mordecai Richler
Apr. 27, 7:30 PM: “Everything Is Illuminated” by Jonathan Safrean Foer
Mar. 23, 6:30 PM: “The Castle” by Franz Kafka
Feb 2, 6:30 PM: “Out of Egypt” by Andre Aciman

2002:

Dec. 22, 7:30 PM: “Street of Crocodiles” by Bruno Schulz
Nov. 24, 7:30 PM: Johanna Kaplan will be present to discuss her novel “O My America”