by beth-ami | Jan 8, 2025 | Beth Ami Book Club
Our current read is AIN’T NO GRAVE by Mary Glickman (fiction, 20i24, 264 pgs.) This year there are two short ONE BAY ONE BOOK selections. Both take place in the American South. Last month we discussed GOYHOOD by s.pies. Reuven Fenton. Glickman’s book is...
by beth-ami | Dec 15, 2024 | Beth Ami Book Club
Jewish Calcutta Through Music and Memory, with Rahel Musleah Click here to register for this free virtual program co-presented by New Lehrhaus. OR We will have a Beth Ami group zoom from our social hall Sunday, December 22, 2024 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Everyone...
by beth-ami | Nov 20, 2024 | Beth Ami Book Club
This Jewish calendar year the SF Jewish Community Library has 2 short OneBayOne Book selections. Both novels take place in the South of the U.S. First we’re borrowing 12 copies of GOYHOOD by Reuven Fenton which will be available to CBA members and friends on November...
by beth-ami | Oct 6, 2024 | Beth Ami Book Club
CBA BOOK GROUP current read is TO THE END OF THE LAND by highly acclaimed Israeli writer David Grossman (Fiction,576 pgs, Hebrew, 2008; English translation, 2010. All 12 copies of the book borrowed from the SF Jewish Community Library have already been distributed,...
by beth-ami | Jul 2, 2024 | Beth Ami Book Club
We will have THE LIAR by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen (fiction, 288 pgs., Hebrew, 2018; English translation, 2019) available to borrow in the beginning of July. Nofar is an unhappy teenager working in an ice cream shop when a frustrated customer unleashes an insulting verbal...
by Leanne Schy | Mar 24, 2024 | Beth Ami Book Club
Our next read is the classic Bernard Malamud’s THE FIXER (fiction, 352 pgs. 1966.) It won both the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize, and is highly recommended by Rita Kagan. Set in Kiev in 1911, a non-observant Jewish handyman refuses to confess to a crime...
