Sof Book Club Schedule
Sundays | Pages | Kindle? | Title | Author | Focus |
1/31/21
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320
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yes
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If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir
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Ilana Kurshan
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Non-fiction. Author’s connection to Daf Yomi, the commitment to read a page of Talmud a day and complete it in 7 years.
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3/7/21
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275
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yes
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Bee Season
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Myla Goldberg
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Debut novel coming of age for a female spelling bee champion.
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5/30/21
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465
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yes
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky
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Mark Sullivan
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Based on true experiences of Pino Lella, an unsung Italian WWII hero, who joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps and falls for a beautiful widow.
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7/11/21
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371
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yes
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Davita’s Harp
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Chaim Potok
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His only novel with a female protagonist.
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8/22/21
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468
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yes
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The Golem and The Jinni | Helen Wecker
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History and fantasy set in circa 1899 NYC
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Book Club Anniversary
December 12, 2019
Sof Maʻarav Book Club
The Sof Ma’arav book club is celebrating its 14th anniversary. During that time, members have met several times a year to discuss important works by Jewish authors and about Jewish life. Listed below are the books enjoyed by book club members over the past 14 years.
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
An Interrupted Life, The Diaries 1941-1943 by Etty Hillesum
Three Daughters by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Call It Sleep by Henry Roth
Night by Elie Wiesel
Paradise Park by Allegra Goodman
Rashi’s Daughters, Book 1 – Joheved by Maggie Anton
Patrimony by Philip Roth
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frank
The World to Come by Dara Horn
The Jew in the Lotus by Rodger Kamentz
As a Driven Leaf by Milton Steinberg
A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz
The Covenant by Naomi Ragen
The Orientalist by Tom Reiss
Betraying Spinoza by Rebecca Goldstein
The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon by Richard Zimler
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
Rashi’s Daughters, Book 2 – Mariam by Maggie Anton
Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
The Zookkeeper’s Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman
Rembrandt’s Jews by Steven Nadler
Joy Comes in the Morning by Jonathan Rosen
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union: A Novel by Michael Chabon
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
The Book Thief by Markus Zuzak
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit by Lucette Lagnado
A Woman in Jerusalem by A.B. Yehoshua
Away by Amy Bloom
My Life by Golda Meir
A Pigeon and A Boy by Meir Shalev
My Father’s Paradise by Ariel Sabar
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges by Nathan Englander
In My Father’s Court by I.B. Singer
Love Song by Julius Lester
Song for the Butcher’s Daughter by Peter Manseau
All Other Nights by Dara Horn
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
The Haunted Smile by Lawrence Epstein
Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
To the End of the Land by David Grossman
Kaaterskill Falls by Allegra Goodman
A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs
by David Lehman
Raquela by Ruth Gruber
The Hare with the Amber Eyes by Edmund De Waal
Wandering Stars by Sholem Aleichem
The Girl from Foreign by Sadia Shepard
The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal
The Free World by David Bezmozgis
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
Sacred Trash by Adina Hoffman & Peter Cole
Pictures at an Exhibition by Sara Houghteling
Friendly Fire by A.B. Yehoshua
My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum
Cleaner by Meir Shalev
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of
America’s Banana King by Rich Cohen
A Jewish Girl and A Not-so-Jewish Boy by Sandra Armstrong
The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
Rashi by Elie Wiesel
The Bielski Brothers by Peter Duffy
The Book of Job by Harold Kushner
Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths by Bruce Feiler
Russ and Daughters by Mark Russ Federman
God Knows by Joseph Heller
Jews and Words by Amos Oz & Fania Oz-Salzberger
This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
Peony by Pearl S. Buck
A Tranquil Star by Primo Levi
When General Grant Expelled the Jews by Jonathan Sarna
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Scenes From Village Life by Amos Oz
Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers by Harry Bernstein
My Promised Land by Ari Shavit
An Officer and A Spy by Robert Harris
Kvetch: One Bitch of a Life by Greta Beigel
Zealot-The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan
The Mezuzah in the Madonna’s Foot by Trudi Alexy
Leonard Bernstein: An American Musician by Allen Shawn
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Dona Gracia of the House of Nasi by Cecil Roth
The Puttermesser Papers: A Novel by Cynthia Ozick
The Gershwins and Me by Michael Feinstein
Total Immersion by Allegra Goodman
An Improbable Friendship by Anthony David
The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories by Bruno Schultz
The Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik
Day of Atonement by David Liss
All Who Go Do Not Return: A Memoir by Shulem Deen
The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks
Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
Playing with Fire by Tess Gerritsen
Fever at Dawn by Peter Gardos
The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem by Sarit Yishai-Levi
Little Failure: A Memoir by Gary Shteyngart
Yiddish: A Nation of Words by Miriam Weinstein
Pumpkinflowers – A Solider’s Story by Matti Friedman
Moonglow by Michael Chabon
Maus I and II by Art Spiegelman
A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
The Last Minyan in Havana by Betty Heisler
Judas by Amos Oz
The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
Lost in Translation: Life in a New Language by Eva Hoffman
The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish
Shylock is My Name by Howard Jacobson
Moses, A Human Life by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
My Mother’s Sabbath Days by Chaim Grade