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I. L. Peretz
Secular Jewish Community

--The Secular Alternative--
in Central New Jersey

 

 

 

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Book Discussion Group

Our book discussion group meets in a member's home monthly to discuss a book selected by group members.  Selections include:

 

2001

 

Patrimony

Philip Roth

The Issue is Power

Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges

Nathan Englander

An Empire of Their Own

Neal Gabler

The Red Tent

Anita Diamant

Sleeping on a Wire

David Grossman

A Journey to the End of the Millennium

A B Yehoshua

Enemies, A Love Story

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Joshua Then and Now

Mordechai Richler

Joshua Then and Now

Film

2002

 

Tevye the Dairyman

Sholem Aleichem

The Bread Givers

Anzia Yezierska

The Book of Daniel

E L Doctorow

The Human Stain

Philip Roth

The Iron Wall

Avi Shlaim

The Shawl/The Messiah of Stockholm

Cynthia Ozick

Fugitive Pieces

Anne Michaels

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Michael Chabon

White Teeth

Zadie Smith

2003

 

The Satanic Verses

Salman Rushdie

The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel

Isaac Babel

Operation Shylock

Philip Roth

You Shall Be As Gods

Erich Fromm

Everything is Illuminated

Jonathan Safran Foer

Revenge: A Story of Hope

Laura Blumenfeld

The Same Sea

Amos Oz

2004

 

Out of Place: A Memoir

Edward Said

Austerlitz

W.G. Sebald

Lost Tribe

Paul Zakrzewski (ed.)

The Centaur in the Garden

Moacyr Scliar

The Tattoed Girl

Joyce Carol Oates

Ten Thousand Lovers

Edeet Ravel

World's Fair

E.L. Doctorow

The Assistant

Bernard Malamud

The Known World

E.P Jones

2005

 

City of Glass

Paul Auster

Where She Came From

Helen Epstein

All My Sons

Arthur Miller

In America

Susan Sontag

Mr. Mani

A. B. Yehoshua

The Song of Names

Norman Lebrecht

The Periodic Table

Primo Levi

Mr. Sammler's Planet

Saul Bellow

The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini

The Bible - Genesis and Isaiah

 

2006

 

American Pastoral

Philip Roth

Disgrace

J.M. Coetzee

The House Gun

Nadine Gordimer

God Knows

Joseph Heller

The Madonna of Excelsior

Zakes Mda

Reading Lolita in Tehran

Azar Nafisi

Stone from the River

Ursual Hegi

2007

 

The Pity of It All

Amos Elon

The I.L. Peretz Reader

IL Peretz

The Fragmented Life of Don Jacobo Lerner

Isaac Goldemberg

The History of Love: A Novel

Nicole Krauss

A Tale of Love and Darkness

Amos Oz

The Yacoubian Building

Alaa Al Aswany

Absurdistan

Gary Shteyngardt

Suite Francaise

Irene Nemirov

Uncle Tungsten

Oliver Sacks

2008

 

A Woman in Jerusalem

AB Yehoshua

The Collected Stories

Grace Paley

None to Accompany Me

Nadine Gordimer

Journey from the Land of No

Roya Hakakian

The Counterlife

Philip Roth

Salonica, City of Ghosts

Mark Mozower

Fima

Amos Oz

The Yiddish Policeman's Union

Michael Chabon

The Ministry of Special Cases

Nathan Englander

Palestinian Walks

Raja Shehadeh

A Tranquil Star

Primo Levi

Beware of God

Shalom Auslander

 

For more information about the I. L. Peretz Community Jewish School or the I. L. Peretz Secular Jewish Community, call us at 732-545-9691 or email to info@ilperetz.org.

 

 

 

 

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