Next Book Club Meet
Title: DayAfter Night
By: Anita Diamant
Sunday Evening, June 5th
8:00 pm
At the home of Chani Gurkov
194 Ratzer Road
Wayne NJ
Day After Night is based on the extraordinary true story of the October 1945 rescue of more than two hundred prisoners from the Atlit internment camp, a prison for "illegal" immigrants run by the British military near the Mediterranean coast south of Haifa. The story is told through the eyes of four young women at the camp with profoundly different stories. All of them survived the Holocaust: Shayndel, a Polish Zionist; Leonie, a Parisian beauty; Tedi, a hidden Dutch Jew; and Zorah, a concentration camp survivor. Haunted by unspeakable memories and losses, afraid to begin to hope, Shayndel, Leonie, Tedi, and Zorah find salvation in the bonds of friendship and shared experience even as they confront the challenge of re-creating themselves in a strange new country.
This is an unforgettable story of tragedy and redemption, a novel that reimagines a moment in history with such stunning eloquence that we are haunted and moved by every devastating detail. Day After Night is a triumphant work of fiction.
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Next Book Club Meet
Book Title:
Not Me By: Michael Lavigne
Monday, March 28th
8:00 pm
At the home of Lisa Schwarz
56 Chestnut Drive
Wayne NJ
NOT ME is Michael Lavigne's debut novel that tells the dramatic and surprising stories of two men-father and son-through sixty years of uncertain memory, distorted history, and assumed identity. When Heshel Rosenheim, apparently suffering from Alzheimer's disease, hands his son, Michael, a box of moldy old journals, an amazing adventure begins-one that takes the reader from the concentration camps of Poland to an improbable love story during the battle for Palestine, from a cancer ward in New Jersey to a hopeless marriage in San Francisco. The journals, which seem to tell the story of Heshel's life, are so harrowing, so riveting, so passionate, and so perplexing that Michael becomes obsessed with discovering the truth about his father.
As Michael struggles to come to grips with his father's elusive past, a world of complex and disturbing possibilities opens up to him-a world in which an accomplice to genocide may have turned into a virtuous Jew and a young man cannot recall murdering the person he loves most; a world in which truth is fiction and fiction is truth and one man's terrible-or triumphant-transformation calls history itself into question.
Michael must then solve the biggest riddle of all: Who am I?Intense, vivid, funny, and entirely original, Not Me is an unsparing and unforgettable examination of faith, history, identity, and love.
Looking forward to seeing you! Chani Gurkov & Einat Pinsker
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Please join us for a night of fun as we watch a film that is at once both heartbreaking and hopeful- and surprising to the end!
This evening is in lieu of the Chabad Center's Book club and all women are welcome to attend.
Sunday Evening, January 23rd
7:00pm sharp
at the home of Sarit Dayan
232 Ridge Road
Pompton Lakes, NJ
A remarkable story of triumph and the resilience of the human spirit, this courageous documentary tells the story of Irene and her twin brother Renee, Czech Jews sent to Auschwitz at age six. The siblings survived three years in the camp, where they were among the 3,000 twins experimented on by Josef Menage and other Nazi doctors. Because Menage generally murdered the twins he studied so that he could autopsy them together, only 160 twins survived Auschwitz. Separated after liberation, then reunited years later in the United States, Renee and Irene speak frankly about their experiences and their hopes for the future. More than a record of one of the Holocaust's darkest chapters, Renee and I is about love and courage, demons and saviors, the complexity of the human psyche, and how rare individuals are able to rise above inhumane circumstances with their emotional selves intact.
To RSVP or for further information,
Call Chani 973-694-6274
Chanig@optonline.net
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"The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit"
by Lucette Lagnado
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
8:00 pm
At the home of Jen Krakovsky:
28 Briarwood Way
North Haledon, NJ 07508
This memoir of ruin told without melodrama by its youngest survivor, The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit recounts the exile of the author's Jewish Egyptian family from Cairo in 1963 and her father's heroic and tragic struggle to survive his "riches to rags" trajectory.
For more info call 973-694-6274 or email chanig@optonline.net.
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The Chabad Center would like to invite you to our 5th Book club. featuring the talented author-Ruchama King as she speaks about her book- a Hadassah book club pick.
"Seven Blessings"
Two Orthodox Jewish matchmakers strive busily to marry off their neighbors in this bustling debut novel set in modern-day Jerusalem. Tsippi, who works the counter of her husband's grocery store, is always on the lookout for promising single shoppers, even as her own marriage begins to show signs of wear....... "Book Club meet with the Author night." $15 per person Join us on Monday, November 17th 7:30pm At the Chabad Center 194 Ratzer road Wayne Elegant dessert buffet book signing and book purchase will be available. For more info. Call 973-694-6274 or Chanig@optonline.net
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Book Club
for Women
Meeting #4
The Book Club is a reading group for women that will focus on books by Jewish authors who wrote about Jewish themes and Jewish life in different periods and places. Women meet once a month at one of our member's houses in order to discuss different issues and topics from the books and share our opinions.
For more information or to RSVP please contact Chani at 973-694-6274 or Chanig@optonline.net.
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Wednesday,
Sept. 10th, 2008
8:00 pm
At Kim Goldfond's Home
11 Brentwood Court Wayne, NJ
973 694 1340
The book's title is:
"The color of Water"
The book is inspiring, vibrant and incredibly moving. Mr. McBride evokes his childhood trek across the great racial divide with the kind of power and grace that touches and uplifts all hearts.
It is recommended that each member choose a book from this list for each monthly meeting as the list contains an amazing variety of fascinating books to choose from that offer a profound view of Jewish life and Jewish issues by the finest writers. You are more than welcome to give your own suggestions for reading if you want to recommend a book that is not on the list.
We think the reading group will be a lot of fun socially and will be intellectually very enriching.
Sincerely,
Chani Gurkov & Einat Pinsker
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