| 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. Our book club meeting will take place in the Davis Lounge.  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. Sisterhood's next congregational Book Club meeting will take place on Tuesday, December 6th at 7:00pm. We will be reading our own Andi Rosenthal's debut novel, The Bookseller's Sonnets (O Books, 2010). Two copies will be available in the Temple library at the first book club meeting, or can be purchased on Amazon.com, or at any retailer. It is also available for Kindle, Nook and all e-reader devices.
Temple members and non-members are welcome! |
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