Book Club

Kadimah maintains a successful Book Club at which people from across the Greater Boston Community discuss a book over coffee and bagels. Books have ranged from old classics to recently released best-sellers, and from non-fiction to fantasy. Meetings are about once a month on Sunday mornings.

Current read: A Daughter of Two Mothers, by Miriam Cohen

Synopsis: Written by best-selling author Miriam Cohen, A Daughter of Two Mothers is the incredible, true account of a handicapped widow's forced separation from her infant daughter, the years of longing and searching, the legal battle, and the subsequent destruction brought by the Nazis. Open this book and you will step into the world of a generation gone, of pre- and post-war Hungarian Jewry, as young Leichu moves between two communities and their divergent lifestyles. This is a gripping story of separation and reunion, of pure faith and acceptance of G-d's will, and of triumph over despair. (Feldheim)

Past reads have included:

• The Weight of Ink, by Rachel Kadish
• The Imported Bridegroom, by Abraham Cahan
• People Love Dead Jews, by Dara Horn
• As a Driven Leaf, by Milton Steinberg
• Eternal Life, by Dara Horn
• Rabbis and Wives, by Chaim Grade
• Invisible Ink, by Guy Stern
• Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, by Christian McBride
• When Angels Left the Old Country, by Sasha Lamb
• Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: 1929, by Hillel Cohen
• Ornament of the World; How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain, by Maria Rosa Menocal
• The Brothers Ashkenazi, by Israel Joshua Singer
• Songs for the Broken Hearted, by Ayelet Tsabari
• Vagabond Stars: A World History of Yiddish Theater, by Nahma Sandrow
• The Hebrew Teacher, by Maya Arad
• The Search Committee, by Rabbi Marc Angel
• Adjusting Sights, by Haim Sabato
• In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin, by Erik Larson
• Between Friends, by Amos Oz