The Hebrew Tabernacle Book Club, open to the community, meets on the second Wednesday evening of the month year-round, and is volunteer led. We read a variety of fiction and non-fiction genres, and have had local authors join us!
We welcome all for a light nosh, and guarantee lively discussion!
Come meet your neighbors, and join us to learn and exchange opinions about various Jewish issues.
Suggestions for books are appreciated. Please contact convener Susan Gellert (susan_gellert@yahoo.com).
Due to the coronavirus outbreak, all book club meetings will be via Zoom. Check back for updates.
| Date | Title | Author | Year | Leader |
| 6/8/2022 | They Left It All Behind | Hannah Hahn | 2020 | Sarah |
| 5/18/2022 | Ethel Rosenberg | Anne Sebba | 2021 | Ellen |
| 4/20/2022 | Caste | Isabel Wilkerson | 2020 | Marissa |
| 3/23/2022 | The Hare With Amber Eyes | Edmund De Waal | 2011 | Lois |
| 2/9/2022 | Apeirogon | Colum McCann | 2020 | Tsila |
| 1/12/2022 | The Book of Lost Names | Kristin Harmel | 2020 | Celia |
| 12/8/2021 | Concealed | Esther Amini | 2020 | Tsila |
| 11/17/2021 | Being Heumann | Judith Heumann | 2020 | Shelly |
| 10/13/2021 | Barren Island | Carol Zoref | 2017 | Hilary |
| 9/22/2021 | The Nesting Dolls | Alina Adams | 2020 | Lilia |
| 8/11/2021 | Mother Land | Leah Franqui | 2020 | Marissa |
| 7/14/2021 | Florence Adler Swims Forever | Rachel Beanland | 2020 | Rose Ellen |
| 6/9/2021 | The Last Kings of Shanghai | Jonathan Kaufman | 2020 | Celia |
| 5/12/2021 | For You Mom, Finally | Ruth Reichl | 2009 | Ellen |
| 4/22/2021 | Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor | Yossi Klein Halevi | 2018 | Tsila |
| 3/10/2021 | Among the Living | Jonathan Rabb | 2016 | Lois |
| 2/10/2021 | Serenade for Nadia | Zülfü Livaneli | 2011 | Hilary |
| 1/13/2021 | The Last Watchman of Old Cairo | Michael David Lukas | 2018 | Deb |
| 12/9/2020 | Tehran Children | Mikhal Dekel | 2019 | Judith |
| 11/11/2020 | The Family Tabor | Cherise Wolas | 2018 | Celia |
| 10/14/2020 | Spies of No Country | Matti Friedman | 2019 | Tsila |
| 9/16/2020 | Such Good Girls | R. D. Rosen | 2014 | Marissa |
| 8/19/2020 | The Color of Water | James McBride | 1995 | Ellen |
| 7/22/2020 | Three Floors Up | Eshkol Nevo | 2015 | Tsila |
| 6/24/2020 | Becoming Eve | Abby Chava Stein | 2019 | Leah |
| 5/27/2020 | If All the Seas were Ink | Ilana Kurshan | 2017 | Rebecca |
| 4/29/2020 | Violins of Hope | James A. Grymes | 2014 | Susan |
| 3/25/2020 | Joshua: A Brooklyn Tale | Andrew Kane | 2011 | Marissa |
| 2/19/2020 | A Remarkable Kindness | Diana Bletter | 2015 | Tsila |
| 1/15/2020 | Shanghai Diary | Ursula Bacon | 2004 | Lois |
| 12/11/2019 | Cilka’s Journey | Heather Morris | 2019 | Celia |
| 11/13/2019 | Henna House | Nomi Eve | 2014 | Susan |
| 10/16/2019 | Outwitting History | Aaron Lansky | 2004 | Deb |
| 9/25/2019 | The Strangers We Became | Cynthia Kaplan Shamash | 2015 | Marissa |
| 8/21/2019 | The Coffee Trader | David Liss | 2004 | Lilia |
| 7/31/2019 | Kaddish.com | Nathan Englander | 2019 | Hilary |
| 6/19/2019 | Unorthodox Practices | Marissa Piesman | 1989 | Amy |
| 5/15/2019 | Peony | Pearl S. Buck | 1948 | Ellen |
| 4/17/2019 | The Nazi Officer’s Wife | Edith Hahn Beer | 1999 | Susan |
| 3/27/2019 | The Jew Store | Stella Suberman | 1998 | Judith |
| 2/20/2019 | The Fortuneteller’s Kiss | Brenda Serotte | 2006 | |
| 1/23/2019 | My Russian Grandmother and her American Vacuum Cleaner | Meir Shalev | 2011 | |
| 12/19/2018 | A Terrible Country | Keith Gessen | 2018 | |
| 11/14/2018 | The Mystics of Mile End | Sigal Samuel | 2015 | |
| 10/24/2018 | Snow in August | Pete Hamill | 1997 | |
| 9/24/2018 | The Cloister | James Carroll | 2017 | |
| 8/27/2018 | Young Jane Young | Gabrielle Zevin | 2017 | |
| 7/25/2018 | Gateway to the Moon | Mary Morris | 2018 | |
| 6/18/2018 | Ester and Ruzya: How my grandmothers survived Hitler’s war and Stalin’s peace | Masha Gessen | 2004 | |
| 5/23/2018 | The Victim’s Fortune | John Authers and Richard Wolffe | 2002 | |
| 4/23/2018 | The Hours Count | Jillian Carter | 2015 | |
| 3/28/2018 | The Pious Ones | Joseph Berger | 2014 | |
| 2/26/2018 | Out of Egypt: a memoir | André Aciman | 2007 | |
| 1/31/2018 | The Marriage of Opposites | Alice Hoffman | 2015 | |
| 1/3/2018 | All Other Nights | Dara Horn | 2010 | |
| 11/29/2017 | Letting it Go | Miriam Katin | 2013 | |
| 11/1/2017 | Crossing Broadway | Robert Snyder | 2015 |