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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.
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.
On Sunday, April 20, at 2 p.m., the TBS Book Club will meet on Zoom with author Joan Leegant. Some of us have already read her book of short stories, Displaced Persons, which we all loved. Now we have a chance to actually meet the author and learn more about her life and writing process!
If you're not already on the Book Club email list, please write to Emily Kahn-Freedman at emily.freedman2@gmail.com to receive the Zoom link. We encourage you to attend even if you haven't read the whole book!
For our May meeting (date to be determined, due to Mother's Day), we'll also meet with an author, our own Jane Rosenthal, whose remarkable book The Serpent Bearer is a historical thriller about a Jewish lawyer from South Carolina who gets caught up in Nazi-laced intrigue in the Yucatan in 1941.
Meetings are at 2 p.m. mountain time on zoom.