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Past Klehr Center For Jewish Life Reading Group Selections

2008 – 2009

* The Septembers of Shiraz, Dalia Sofer

* Contemporary Jewish Voices I: Short Stories

* Panther in the Basement, Amos Oz

* Maus, Art Spiegelman

* Bee Season, Myla Goldberg

* Contemporary Jewish Voices II: Poetry

* There Are Jews in My House, Lara Vapnyar

* Indignation, Philip Roth


2009 – 2010

* A Pigeon and A Boy, Meir Shalev

* Dropped From Heaven, Sophie Judah

* An Almost Perfect Moment, Binnie Kirshenbaum

* Memory, Philippe Grimbert

* The Believers, Zoe Heller

* The Girl From Foreign, Sadia Shepard

* On Borrowed Words, Ilan Stavans

* If You Awaken Love, Emuna Elon

* Secret Life of Saeed, The Ill-fated Pessoptimist, Emile Habiby


2010 – 2011

* A Contract with God, and Other Tenement Stories, Will Eisner

* 36 Arguments for the Existence of God, Rebecca Goldstein

* The Angel of Forgetfulness, Steve Stern

* Away, Amy Bloom

* The Lost:  A Search for Six of Six Million (part 1), Daniel Mendelsohn

* This Is Where I Leave You, Jonathon  Tropper

* Isaac’s Torah, Angel Wagenstein

* The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Michael Chabon