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CBS Everyone's Book Club

All CBS community members are invited to join the CBS Everyone’s Book Club. Relax with a good book and then join us for a lively and engaging discussion.  Everyone is welcome to participate.  It doesn't matter if you enjoyed the book, or perhaps you didn't enjoy the book, or even if you haven't finished it. The books are selected by the group and represent a variety of genres, all with a connection to Jewish history or culture.

All meetings are currently held via Zoom. You do not need to attend all the sessions to participate. Come to a few or go to them all! For more information, contact Anna at bookclub@cbswilmde.org

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Current and Upcoming Reads

 

3/31/2024
Irving Berlin: New York Genius (Jewish Lives) by James Kaplan 

5/5/2023
The German Wife: A Novel by Kelly Rimmer 

6/2/2024
Saving Monticello: The Levy Family's Epic Quest to Rescue the House that Jefferson Built by Mark Leepson 

7/14/2024
The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp by Simon Parkin

 

Past Reads

2023-2024

9/10/2023
Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947 by Norman Lebrecht 

10/22/2023
The Collector: A Novel by Daniel Silva 

11/19/2023
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present by Dara Horn 

12/17/2023 
The Matchmaker's Gift: A Novel by Lynda Cohen Loigman 

1/21/2024
A Bintel Brief: Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward

2/25/2024
Death in Shangri-La (A Dotan Naor Thriller) by Yigal Zur 

2022-2023

10/2/2022
The Postmistress of Paris: A Novel
by Meg Waite Clayton

11/6/2022
Zabar's: A Family Story, with Recipes
by Lori Zabar

12/11/2022
A Late Divorce
by A.B. Yehoshua

1/22/2023
Putin's Hybrid War and the Jews: Antisemitism, Propaganda, and the Displacement of Ukrainian Jewry
by Sam Sokol

2/26/2023
Woman on Fire: A Novel
by Lisa Barr

3/26/2023
Ticking Clock: Behind the Scenes at 60 Minutes
by Ira Rosen

4/23/2023
Gateway to the Moon: A Novel
by Mary Morris

5/21/2023
The Murders of Moisés Ville: The Rise and Fall of the Jerusalem of South America
by Javier Sinay

6/25/2023
A Restaurant in Jaffa
by Mark E. Sorenson

7/23/2023
The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family
by Joshua Cohen

 

2021-2022

8/15/2021
Never Alone
by Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy

10/3/2021
A Bend in the Stars by Rachel Barenbaum

11/14/2021
The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902: Immigrant Housewives and the Riots That Shook New York City
by Scott D. Seligman

12/12/2021
The Convert: A Novel
by Stefan Hertmans

1/23/2022
The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China
by Jonathan Kaufman

2/27/2022
The Cellist: A Novel
by Daniel Silva

3/27/2022
Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life--in Judaism (After Finally Choosing to Look There)
by Sarah Hurwitz

4/24/2022
The Lost Shtetl: A Novel
by Max Gross

5/22/2022
Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet (Jewish Lives)
by Jeffrey Rosen

6/26/2022
The Book of Lost Names
by Kristin Harmel

7/24/2022
Jacob's Legacy: A Genetic View of Jewish History
by David B. Goldstein

 

Last Updated: 1/22/2024

Mon, March 18 2024 8 Adar II 5784