Prior Year Book Events

2021 Books

• The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem by Sarit Yishai-Levi
• The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
• The Color of Love: A Story of a Mixed-Race Jewish Girl by Marra B. Gad
• Eric Mendelsohn’s Synagogues in America by Michael Palmer ***
• Once We Were Slaves by Laura Arnold Leibman ***
• Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist by Eli Saslo
• Tahini Table by Amy Zitelman ***
• The Tenth Muse by Catherine Chung ***
• Two Sisters of Coyoacan by Roberta Satow

2020 Books

• The Chosen by Chaim Potok
• Florence Adler Swims Forever by Rachel Beanland ***
• Henna House by Nomi Eve
• I Want You to Know We're Still Here by Esther Safran Foer ***
• Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China's Other Billion by Michael Levy ***
• The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China by Jonathan Kaufman ***
• My Father’s Paradise by Ariel Sabar ***
• Return to the Reich: A Holocaust Refugee's Secret Mission to Defeat the Nazis by Eric Lichtblau
• Siberian Exile by Julija Šukys ***

*** indicates that author present for discussion

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2019 Books

• The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King by Rich Cohen
• Inheritance by Dani Shapiro
• The Last Watchman of Old Cairo by Michael David Lukas
• My Pashtun Rabbi by David Eden
• Safekeeping by Jessamyn Hope
• We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
• Where the Angels Lived by Margaret McMullan ***

2018 and 2017 Books

• All Other Nights by Dora Horn
• All Who Go Do Not Return by Sholem Dean
• Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan 
• The Bridal Chair by Gloria Goldreich
• Death by Pastrami (short stories) by Leonard Bernstein
• Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
• Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
• Norway by Night by Derek Miller
• Russ and Daughters: Reflections and Recipes from the House That Herring Built by Mark Federman
• Saving Sophie by Ron Balson
• Soviet Daughter (a graphic novel)