Celia Gurevitch Jewish Community Library

As usual, our group had a great meeting with lively discussion about the book most of us finished reading: Tamar Yellin‘s “The Genizah of the House of Shepher.” After discussing logistics for the coming meetings Vivien summarized the book for us and shared some observation from the reviews she read. Then we went around the table in a more or less orderly fashion and each of us shared a few or more words about our impression of the book. A theme quickly developed: all of us liked the descriptive power of the author. We read our favorite short and long quotes, which were amazing descriptions of people, places and events. On the other hand we also agreed that the pieces of the books felt disjointed when put together. It probably would have been better to read them as a series of short stories.

Three members of the group donated their copies to the library. (Thank you!) Thus we will have one copy available for borrowing and two for purchasing.

We will meet in a month, on February 4, to talk about Moacyr Scliar‘s “A Centaur in the Garden.”