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Congratulations to all who completed our
3rd Annual Summer Reading Club - "Reading Rocks!"
Jonah Albert, Dalia Albert, Adina Applebaum, Talya Applebaum, Shoshana Applebaum, Rachel Berg, Nathan Chomsky, Courtney Cohen, Shelby Cohen, Mendel Greenberg, Mussie Greenberg, Levi Greenberg, Kendall Jones, Robbie Jones, Sydney Jones, Ari Kohl, Molly Kohl, Daphne Logan, Kenan Mealoy, Malachi Mealoy, Benjamin Measom, Eli Measom, Hannah Measom, Brandon Mostyn, Ethan Mostyn, Emily Murzyn, Joey Murzyn, Jamie Ockner, Avery Owen, Danielle Portal, Zachary Rones, Benjamin Rosenberg, Maya Rosenberg, Jeremy Rosenberg, Helen Shanker, Joshua Sherman, Abby Siegal, Rachel Siporin, Jacob Strome, Melissa Strome, Lisa Waldman
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Adult Book
Club News
Do you enjoy reading and discussing great literature? Are you
looking for a way to socialize and meet new people, or a familiar
atmosphere to reconnect with good friends? The library's seasonal
Reading Clubs have a wonderful selection of titles that will keep
you reading all year long!
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Wednesday, February 6 at 1:30 p.m.
Emma Lazarus by Esther Schor
A definitive portrait of the iconoclastic poet
and activist whose words are set on the
Statue of Liberty follows the complex life
and times of Emma Lazarus, from her early
literary success, to her roles as a
feminist, Zionist, and renowned
Jewish-American writer, based on previously
undiscovered personal correspondence.
Facilitator:
Jan Durecki / Archivist at the Rabbi
Franklin Archives at Temple Beth El in
Bloomfield Hills. She has a MLIS from Wayne
state University with a Specialization in
Archives Management and a 2nd Masters from
the University of Michigan in the Study of
American Culture. Jan initiated the Jewish
History Detective Lecture Series focusing on
topics of general interest to the broader
Jewish Community.
Wednesday, March 26 at 2 p.m. or
Thursday, March 27 at 7 p.m.
The Lost: a Search for Six of Six Million
by Daniel Mendelsohn
The author of
The Exclusive Embrace describes how his
family was haunted by the disappearance of
six relatives during the Holocaust and how
he embarked on a determined search to find
the remaining eyewitnesses to his lost
ancestors' fates, an effort that took him to
a dozen countries on three continents.
Facilitator:
Sharon Schwartz / holds a Masters Degree in
English from Oakland University and has
taught at Hillel Day School for 20 years,
where she started and runs book clubs for
students and parents. She is also a former
facilitator for the Brandeis Women's Book
Club.
April / May - Special Author Visit (To Be
Announced)
Wednesday, June 11 at 1:30 p.m.
If you Awaken Love by Emuna Elon
Forty-year-old interior designer Shlomtzion
Drore is forced to confront her former
fiancé, Yair Berman, a prominent rabbi,
after her daughter becomes engaged to his
son.
Facilitator:
Dalia Shaham / born and raised in Israel,
has a vast knowledge of Judaism, Tanach,
mysticism, and Israeli history and culture.
She teaches Hebrew, Judaica, and Bar/Bat
Mitzvah classes at Temple Israel and is an
experienced book club facilitator.
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Israeli Book Club
Wednesday evenings at 7 p.m.
Facilitator: Dalia Shaham, educator at Temple Israel and experienced book club facilitator
February 27
Mother
is longing for Words Dudi
Busi
אמא מתגעגעת למילים
דודי בוסי
May 7
Ah-Yen Erech Ahava
David Grossman
עין ערך אהבה
דויד גרוסמן
Books are in Hebrew
(available at the Henry & Delia
Meyers Library)
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