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615 N. Broad St., Philadelphia, PA 19123 | 215.627.6747
Mel Brooks is a great tummler. What’s a tummler? Read this amusing memoir to find out. Join us on Wednesday, Oct. 30 at 7:00 p.m. to discuss Brooks’s memoir, All About Me: My Remarkable Life in Show Business. Register here. Contact Howard Green.
This is the fictional account of Otto Silberman, a prosperous Jewish businessman who takes flight when brown-shirted thugs pound on the door of his Berlin apartment as the “night of broken glass” – Kristallnacht – is unfolding. Written in the immediate aftermath of the November 1938 pogrom by a 23 year old, it was published […]
Called “the Great American Reform Jewish Novel” by one critic, Long Island Compromise tells the story of three generations of a prosperous family in the aftermath of a traumatic kidnapping. “A dybbuk is in the works” members of the Fletcher family are wont to remark when things go awry. As another critic observed, the dybbuk […]
Join us on Wednesday, September 10 at 6:30 p.m. to discuss Gabrielle Zevin's book Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. Register here. Contact Howard Green.
Sons and Daughters by Chaim Grade Part One Discussion: Tuesday, October 28 at 6:30 p.m. at RS Sons and Daughters by Chaim Grade is the last book by the last great Yiddish writer of the 20th century. It was published serially in Yiddish newspapers in New York in the 1960s. The manuscript was thought lost until a […]
The last book by the last great Yiddish writer of the 20th century. It was published serially in Yiddish newspapers in New York in the 1960s. The manuscript was thought lost until it was recently discovered among Grade's widow's papers by YIVO (The Institute for Jewish Research), which saw to its translation and publication. Called […]
