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