The Progressive Chavurah Book Club meets approximately every 6 weeks, to discuss books of Jewish interest (usually by Jewish authors).   For more information, contact the book club.

You can support the Progressive Chavurah while ordering our selections through Barnes & Noble by clicking on the "order" links below.   See our Bookstore page for details.

Currently scheduled meetings and events of interest:

Date: TBD

Book Club Meeting: Gay Courter, Flowers in the Blood

 

A list of our previous selections is available.
 

Books or authors suggested for future meetings:

• My Suburban Shtetl: A Novel about Life in a Twentieth-Century Jewish-American Village (Bonnie, June 2002)
• Night by Elie Wiesel (Holli, June 2002)
• Leaving Leningrad, Ludmila Shtern (May 2002, Natasha)
• With Signs and Wonders: An International Anthology of Jewish Fabulist Fiction, Edited by Daniel M. Jaffe (May 2001, Natasha)
• The Last Jew, Noah Gordon (May 2001, Anne/Jennifer)
• Stealing Pike's Peak, Gabe Galambos (Mar 2001, Sharon M?)
• Four Mothers, Shifra Horn (Feb 2001, Bonnie/Amazon)
• Sophie's Choice (Jan. 2001)
• The Seamstress (Pavlik, Jan. 2001)
• The Nazi Officer's Wife (Jennifer, Jan. 2001)
• Elisabeth Kesten, On the Side of the Persecuted (suggested by the author, February 2001)
• Rabbi Tirzah Firestone,With Roots in Heaven: One Woman's Passionate Journey into the Heart of Her Faith  (Helene, October 2000)
• Brian Moore, The Statement (Anne E., July 2000)
• Mark Helprin, Refiner's Fire. (Stephanie)
• Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces (Debbie S/Bonnie)
• Ruth Gruber, Raquela, a woman of Israel  (out of print, but available in many libraries.) (Pavlik)
• Dalia Rabinovich, Flora's Suitcase : A Novel  (Bonnie)
• Helen Jacobus Apte, Marcus D. Rosenbaum (Editor) , Heart of a Wife : The Diary of a Southern Jewish Woman (Bonnie)
• Stephen Dubner, Turbulent Souls : A Catholic Son's Return to His Jewish Family
• Thane Rosenbaum , Elijah Visible : Stories  (Limited availability)
• Leon Wieseltier, Kaddish  (Natasha)
• Jack Miles, God : A Biography  (Sharon M.)
• Aharon Appelfeld, The Iron Tracks  (Sharon M.)
• Michael Drosnin, The Bible Code (Sharon M.)
• Alice Lichtenstein, Genuis of the World (Sharon M.)

Web sites of possible interest to book club members:

• Minuteman Library Network Catalog
• Good places to look for books:
• Our Bookstore, in association with Barnes & Noble
• Wessex Books.
• Wordsworth.
• Derek Royal's list of contemporary Jewish American authors.