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TBS Book Club
People of The Book
Interested in joining a monthly book club whose members discuss books about Jews, Jewish history and historical fiction, Jewish traditions, culture, and more?
The TBS Book Club may be for you!
Begun in April 2022, the TBS Book Club meets monthly (with a few exceptions) on Zoom, usually on the second Sunday of the month at 2 p.m.
New members are always welcome.
Originally, during the pandemic, the TBS Book Club met in-person outdoors, but since August 2022, we’ve met exclusively on Zoom. This is in part because our very dedicated organizer, Emily Kahn-Freedman, moved to New York but still loves connecting with TBS via the book club.
Books are selected two months in advance, at the end of each meeting, by the people who attend that meeting. We now have a long list of fascinating titles, many of them historical fiction, but also nonfiction and contemporary fiction, all with a Jewish theme. Members are encouraged to continue to add to the list of books for possible selection.
You are invited to join our email list and receive information about the next two books selected (often before the titles appear on this website), as well as the Zoom link and reminders about each meeting. There is no obligation to attend, although RSVPs are always appreciated. Simply contact Emily Kahn-Freedman to be added to the emailing list. Emily will also send you the full list of books we’ve already read or are considering reading.
On October 18 (Shabbat rather than our usual Sunday), we'll be joining the HaMakom book club, in person at HaMakom at 1:00 p.m, to discuss An Interrupted Life and Letters from Westerbork, by Etty Hillesum. This meeting will take place after an 11 a.m. live presentation of The Etty Project, also at HaMakom. The Etty Project is a one-woman play based on the journals and letters of Etty Hillesum, "a young Jewish Dutch woman writing diaries in Amsterdam during the Second World War. In these diaries and later, her letters from Westerbork concentration camp, Etty bears witness to what it means to be human and commits herself to a radical choice: not to hate, even as she opens her heart to the horrors unfolding around her. She wrestles to write the life she is living — her loves, her work, her humor, her spirituality, and her transformation. She was murdered in Auschwitz in 1943 at the age of 29."
Our November meeting is scheduled for Sunday, November 16, at 2 p.m. on Zoom. We'll be discussing Eternal by Lisa Scottoline, a love story about a young woman in Mussolini's Italy and the two men she loves, one of whom is Jewish, and the effect on their lives of the rise of Hitler and antisemitism.
You can easily read about each upcoming book selection on the bookseller website of your choice, as well as (usually) on the website of the Santa Fe library.
Meetings are at 2 p.m. mountain time on zoom.