Book Club of the Chavurah Inner West

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Series DescriptionBook club of the Chavurah Inner West is a club that the Chavurah held for members to get together and read some books along with a thoughtful discussion. This series contains material such as flyers, correspondences regarding the book club, book lists, book club notes and discussions, newspaper clippings regarding books being read, book recommendations and bookplate stickers. Books read in this group include but, is not limited to: 'Seven types of Ambiguity' by Elliot Perlman; 'The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God' by Etgar Keret; 'The Nimrod Flip-Out' by Etgar Keret; 'Who Killed Daniel Peral' by Bernard-Henri Levy; 'Apricots on the Nile' by Colette Rossant; 'One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British mandate' by Tom Segev; 'The Dark Room' by Rachel Seiffert; 'Reading the Holocaust' by Inga Clendinnen; 'Tuesdays with Morrie' by Mitch Albom; 'One People?' by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks; 'The Harlot by the Side of the Road' by Jonathan Kirsch; 'Jewish Humour' by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin; 'The Book that was Lost and other Stories' by S.Y. Agnon; 'The book of Jewish Food' by Claudia Roden; 'Enough already' by Alan Jacobs; 'The Jews in the Lotus' by Rodger Kamenetz, 'For the Relief of Unbearable urges' by Nathan Englander; 'Shtetl' by Eva Hoffman; 'Shosha' by Isaac Bashevis Singer; 'The Colour of water' by James Mcbride; 'Damascus Gate' by Robert Stone; 'The Red Tent' by Anita Diamant; 'The Reader' by Bernhard Schlink; 'The Trouble with Islam' by Irshad Manji; 'The Chosen' by Chaim Potok; 'The New Believers' by Rachel Kohn; 'Pictures of a Strange Town' by Sandra Lee Braude; 'The Autograph Man' by Zadie Smith; 'What Went Wrong?' by Bernard Lewis; 'The Battle for God' by Karen Armstrong; 'The Story of a Simple Man' by Joseph Roth. There are 2x floppy discs that have been digitized. Floppy Disc 1 contains promotional flyer drafts for book club gatherings and a New York Times review by Zaide Smith. Floppy Disc 2 contains material relating to the Terezin ghetto readings.
Series Number009
Dates(s)1998 to 2016
ProvenanceB51 Chavurah Inner West - Chavurah
Items

• Book club meeting flyers which contains dates of discussions and the book being read by the group; g …
• lists of books read; correspondences regarding the book club; listening to stories rather than readi …
• Promotional flyer drafts relating to Book Club meeting and Picnic gathering; New York Times review d …