My Temple's book group has been doing a lot of reading about Jews outside the Ashkenazi experience. Here are some titles off the top of my head:
My Father's Paradise (Kurdish Iraq) The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit (Cairo) Dropped from Heaven (India) A Conspiracy of Paper (Sephardi English) The Jewish Husband (Italy) The Ministry of Special Cases (Argentina) Wolfy and the Strudelbakers (Holocaust refugees in England) Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas (Argentina) On my own I read and recommend: Out of Egypt Septembers of Shiraz -- Lee Jaffe, UC Santa Cruz
*From:*hasafran-boun...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu [mailto:hasafran-boun...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu] *On Behalf Of *Rose Novil *Sent:* Wednesday, April 04, 2012 5:01 AM *To:* Hasafran (hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu) *Subject:* [ha-Safran] Literary suggestions? Hi Everyone, Chag Sameach! For the past 5 years, our institution has been organizing "Let's Talk about it"--Jewish Literature readings and discussions focusing on various themes. For example, this year's theme has been Fathers and Daughters in a Changing World and the five books we are reading are: /Tevye the Dairiyman (/Sholem Aleichem), /Bread Giver/s (Yezierska), /1185 Park Avenue: A Memoir/ (Roiphe), /American Pastoral/ (Roth), and/Bee Season/ (Goldberg). I am writing to ask your collective wisdom about suggestions for other Jewish literary themes and some titles of books, especially novels that spotlight the theme and that you consider good reading. One theme we are seriously considering is the theme of "*Jews from other lands."* Any suggestions you offer are greatly appreciated. All the Best, Rose __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) ================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
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