Twenty years ago, a group of Temple members, led by Rabbi Kulwin, began reading together. Since then, the members of the TBA Book Group have read over 250 books together, and continue to read and discuss (and argue!) with enthusiasm and enjoyment. If you like to read, join us! Book Group members know that modern Jewish fiction falls mainly into three categories: books about Israel, books about the Holocaust and books about Jewish life in the Diaspora. In our twentieth year, we read works from each: Some are classics and some are new, and some approach their subject in unusual ways.
On Thursday, February 7, 7:30 PM, Maus by Art Spiegelman will be discussed.Maus was perhaps the literary event of 1973. Holocaust literature was still a young genre, yet Spiegelman writes a serious story of the Shoah as a graphic novel, a term then barely in use? After the initial shock, it became clear that Maus was a masterpiece. It still is, and its numerous accolades include a Pulitzer Prize. Other dates are: Thursdays , March 7, April 11, May 2 and June 6, 2019, 7:30 PM. Free and open to the community.Register at www.tbanj,orgor call 973-994-2290.