by beth-ami | Sep 19, 2023 | Beth Ami Book Club
Now we’re reading Israeli writer, Ayelet Gundar-Goshen’s WAKING LIONS (Fiction, 352 pgs. Hebrew 2014; English translation, 2017.) We participate in the SF Jewish Community Library’s Book Club in a Box program. I’ve been warned that this is not...
by beth-ami | Apr 20, 2023 | Beth Ami Book Club
Our current read is THE ALEPPO CODEX — A True Story of Obsession, Faith and the Pursuit of an Ancient Bible by Matti Friedman. (Non-fiction, 320 pgs., 2012.) Named for the Syrian city in which it was kept, the 10th century Aleppo Codex has long been considered...
by beth-ami | Mar 15, 2023 | Beth Ami Book Club
We are now reading popular Israeli writer Meir Shalev’s TWO SHE-BEARS (Fiction, 320 pgs. Hebrew, 2013; English translation, 2016.) We have loaner books available from the SF Jewish Community Library, including one copy in Hebrew. As usual, open to all CBA...
by beth-ami | Dec 22, 2022 | Beth Ami Book Club
Book Group for January 8 and/or January 15 free choice. Each participant tells us a little about a fiction or non-fiction book he / she has been reading lately. Something about the author. 5 or 10 minutes. And the rest of us listen and may have a question or 2...
by beth-ami | Nov 24, 2022 | Beth Ami Book Club
Our group’s read is Omar Friedlander’s debut collection, The Man Who Sold Air In The Holy Land, the SF Jewish Community Library’s One Bay One Book selection— Jewish people all over the Bay Area are reading it this year. Many related talks on ZOOM and in person. The...
by beth-ami | Nov 8, 2022 | Beth Ami Book Club
Our current read is a memoir by Lev Golinkin, A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka (2014, 303 pgs.) Golinkin was born in Kharkov, Ukraine, in 1980 during the end of the Cold War and the Soviet Union. Critics say the memoir is vivid, darkly comic, gripping....
