10/06/11 Book Club For The Entire Temple Sholom Congregation

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Sisterhood's Book Club Wednesday, October 26th, 7:00pm Everyone, men and women, is invited to participate! Sisterhood's new monthly book club will begin with My Father's Paradise by Ariel Sabar. The discussion will be led by Marilyn Schwartz, a Temple Sholom member and experienced book club facilitator. Three copies of the book are available in the Temple Sholom library or they can be purchased on Amazon as softcover or ebook. For his first 31 years, Ariel Sabar considered his father, Yona, an embarrassing anachronism. Yona was a UCLA professor whose passion was his native language, Aramaic. Ariel was an aspiring rock-and-roll drummer. The birth of Sabar's own son in 2002 was a turning point, prompting Sabar to try to understand his father on his own terms. In searching out his father's past, Sabar vividly depicts daily life in the remote village of Zahko, where Muslims, Jews and Christians banded together to ensure prosperity and survival, and in Israel (after the Jews' 1951 expulsion from Iraq), where Kurdish Jews were stereotyped as backward and simple. Sabar's career as an investigative reporter at the Baltimore Sun and elsewhere serves him well, particularly in his attempt to track down his father's oldest sister, who was kidnapped as an infant. In this beautifully-written work of non-fiction, Ariel Sabar offers something rare and precious - a tale of hope and continuity that can be passed on for generations. To rsvp or if you need further information, please call Phyllis Shapiro at (203) 637-7809 or email her at wigini@gmail.com. Temple members and non-members are welcome!

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