Welcome to our Seattle Jewish Bookgroup Page

An evolving group of us have been getting together over the last 6 years to socialize and discuss books of Jewish interest. We meet monthly on Wednesdays in the middle of the month at our homes in Seattle and on the East Side (well, occasionally on the East Side) to eat, discuss the present book and argue over the next book and where to host the next meeting.

Please email Michele for more information or to be added to our mailing list. email Ken Greenebaum regarding this webpage.

Sometime soon I will add the capability for people to leave comments on the books.

The club has been inactive since mid-2008. You are welcome to sign up in case we ever start up again, but we make no promises that we will do so.

This is the list of books we have read or are about to read.

I encourage supporting the local community by purchasing these books from Tree of Life Judaica & Books in Seattle. But you may also click on the Amazon link and read their reviews of the book and order it there if you are in a hurry.

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cover not available The Fixer by Bernard Malamud See Amazon's description or Order online!
February 2008

cover not available Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity by Rebecca Goldstein See Amazon's description or Order online!
January 2008

cover not available As A Driven Leaf by Milton Steinberg See Amazon's description or Order online!
December 2007

cover not available Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson See Amazon's description or Order online!
November, 2007

cover not available City of God by E. L. Doctorow See Amazon's description or Order online!
October, 2007

cover not available Why We Believe What We Believe by Andrew Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman See Amazon's description or Order online!
September 2007

cover not available The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon See Amazon's description or Order online!
August 2007

cover not available Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism by Michelle Goldberg See Amazon's description or Order online!
July 2007

cover not available How German Is It by Walter Abish See Amazon's description or Order online!
May 2007

cover not available Tender at the Bone: Growing Up At The Table by Ruth Reichl See Amazon's description or Order online!
April 2007

cover not available The Mind-Body Problem by Rebecca Goldstein See Amazon's description or Order online!
March 2007

cover not available Shanghai Diary by Ursula Bacon See Amazon's description or Order online!
February 2007

cover not available Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky See Amazon's description or Order online!
January 2007

cover not available Outwitting History by Aaron Lansky See Amazon's description or Order online!
December 2006

cover not available A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss See Amazon's description or Order online!
November 2006

cover not available Finding Home: In The Footsteps of the Jewish Fusgeyers by Jill Culiner See Amazon's description or Order online!
October 2006

cover not available A Contract with God: And Other Tenement Stories by Will Eisner See Amazon's description or Order online!
September 2006

cover not available Master Mind : The Rise and Fall of Fritz Haber, the Nobel Laureate by Daniel Charles See Amazon's description or Order online!
August 2006

cover not available The Plot Against America by Philip Roth See Amazon's description or Order online!
July 2006

cover not available Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self by Rebecca Walker See Amazon's description or Order online!
June 2006

cover not available Fateless by Imre Kertesz See Amazon's description or Order online!
May 2006

cover not available Dona Gracia of the House of Nasi by Cecil Roth See Amazon's description or Order online!
April 2006

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March 2006

cover not available Five Seasons by A. B. Yehoshua See Amazon's description or Order online!
February 2006

cover not available Maimonides (Jewish Encounters) by Sherwin Nuland See Amazon's description or Order online!
January 2006

cover not available Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith by Gina Nahai See Amazon's description or Order online!
December 2005

cover not available If a Place Can Make You Cry: Dispatches From an Anxious State by Daniel Gordis See Amazon's description or Order online!
November 2005

cover not available Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York by Gail Parent See Amazon's description or Order online!
October 2005

cover not available Virtually Jewish: Reinventing Jewish Culture in Europe by Ruth Ellen Gruber See Amazon's description or Order online!
September 2005

cover not available The Outside World by Tova Mirvis See Amazon's description or Order online!
August 2005

cover not available Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael B. Oren See Amazon's description or Order online!
July 2005

cover not available Collected Stories by Saul Bellow See Amazon's description or Order online!
June 2005

cover not available The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life by Tom Reiss See Amazon's description or Order online!
May 2005

cover not available Your Mouth Is Lovely : A Novel by Nancy Richler See Amazon's description or Order online!
April 2005

[No Image] The Man who Loved Haugesund by Jon Haukelund and Tore Vollan (directors) See Amazon's description or Order online!
March 2005 Seattle Jewish Film Festival

cover not available Faith or Fear: How Jews Can Survive in a Christian America by Elliot Abrams See Amazon's description or Order online!
February 2005

cover not available Life In the Damn Tropics : A Novel by David Unger See Amazon's description or Order online!
January 2005

cover not available Rembrandt's Jews by Steven Nadler See Amazon's description or Order online!
December 2004

cover not available Conspirators by Michael Andre Bernstein See Amazon's description or Order online!
November 2004

cover not available The Mezuzah in the Madonna's Foot: Marranos and Other Secret Jews -- A Woman Discovers Her Spiritual Heritage by Trudi Alexy See Amazon's description or Order online!
October 2004

cover not available Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler See Amazon's description or Order online!
September 2004

cover not available The Jew Store by Stella Suberman See Amazon's description or Order online!
August 2004

cover not available Hester Among the Ruins by Binnie Kirshenbaum See Amazon's description or Order online!
July 2004

cover not available Burnt Bread and Chutney: Growing Up Between Cultures - A Memoir of an Indian Jewish Childhood by Carmit Delman See Amazon's description or Order online!
June 2004

cover not available The Coffee Trader: A Novel by David Liss See Amazon's description or Order online!
May 2004

[No Image] Strangers in Their Own Land by Peter Sichrovsky See Amazon's description or Order online!
April 2004

[No Image] Forget Baghdad by Samir See Amazon's description or Order online!
March 2004 Seattle Jewish Film Festival

cover not available Daniel Deronda by George Elliot See Amazon's description or Order online!
February 2004

cover not available Ambassador Morgenthau's Story by Henry Morgenthau See Amazon's description or Order online!
January 2004

cover not available Club Revelation: A Novel by Allan Appel See Amazon's description or Order online!
December 2003

cover not available Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New York by Stephen Birmingham See Amazon's description or Order online!
November 2003

cover not available The Russian Debutante's Handbook by Gary Shteyngart See Amazon's description or Order online!
October 2003

cover not available Unfinished People: Eastern European Jews Encounter America by Ruth Gay See Amazon's description or Order online!
September 2003

cover not available Meetings with the Archangel : A Comedy of the Spirit by Stephen Mitchell See Amazon's description or Order online!
August 2003

cover not available The Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman See Amazon's description or Order online!
July 2003

cover not available Revenge: A Story of Hope by Laura Blumenfeld See Amazon's description or Order online!
June 2003

cover not available The Procedure by Harry Mulisch See Amazon's description or Order online!
May 2003

cover not available A Life in Pieces: The Making and Unmaking of Binjamin Wilkomirski by Blake Eskin See Amazon's description or Order online!
April 2003

[No Image] Kedma by Amos Gitai See Amazon's description or Order online!
March 2003 Seattle Jewish Film Festival Film

cover not available A Journey to the End of the Millennium - A Novel of the Middle Ages by Abraham B. Yehoshua See Amazon's description or Order online!
February 2003

cover not available The Death of Death: Resurrection and Immortality in Jewish Thought by Neil Gillman See Amazon's description or Order online!
January 2003

cover not available Austerlitz by Winfried Georg Sebald See Amazon's description or Order online!
December 2002

cover not available Walking the Bible by Bruce Feiler See Amazon's description or Order online!
November 2002

cover not available A Blessing on the Moon by Joseph Skibell See Amazon's description or Order online!
October 2002

cover not available How I Came into My Inheritance: And Other True Stories by Dorothy Gallagher See Amazon's description or Order online!
September 2002

cover not available Enemies: A Love Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer See Amazon's description or Order online!
August 2002

cover not available Yiddish: A Nation of Words by Miriam Weinstein See Amazon's description or Order online!
July 2002

cover not available The One Facing Us by Ronit Matalon See Amazon's description or Order online!
June 2002

cover not available Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls by Lawrence H. Schiffman See Amazon's description or Order online!
April 2002

cover not available What Makes Sammy Run? by Budd Schulberg See Amazon's description or Order online!
March 2002

cover not available Jew Vs. Jew by Samual Freedman See Amazon's description or Order online!
February 2002

cover not available The Last of the Just by Andre Schwarz-Bart See Amazon's description or Order online!
January 2002

cover not available Empires of the Sand by Efraim Karsh, Inari Karsh See Amazon's description or Order online!
December 2001

cover not available The Mark of the Angel by Nancy Huston See Amazon's description or Order online!
November 2001

cover not available Taliban : Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid See Amazon's description or Order online!
October 2001

cover not available The Golem's Mighty Swing by James Sturm See Amazon's description or Order online!
September 2001

cover not available Bee Season by Myla Goldberg See Amazon's description or Order online!
August 2001

cover not available Hitler's Pope by John Cornwell See Amazon's description or Order online!
July 2001

cover not available Amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon See Amazon's description or Order online!
June 2001

cover not available After Long Silence : A Memoir by Helen Fremont See Amazon's description or Order online!
May 2001

cover not available The Ladies Auxiliary by Tova Mirvis See Amazon's description or Order online!
April 2001

[No Image] The Engagement Party by William Azaroff See Amazon's description or Order online!
March 2001 Seattle Jewish Film Festival

cover not available The Lord Will Gather Me In by David Klinghoffer See Amazon's description or Order online!
February 2001

cover not available Bad Jews & Other Stories by Gerald Shapiro See Amazon's description or Order online!
January 2001

cover not available God: A Biography by Jack Miles See Amazon's description or Order online!
December 2000

cover not available The Red Tent by Anita Diamant See Amazon's description or Order online!
November 2000

cover not available King David - The Real Life of the Man Who Ruled Israel by Jonathan Kirsch See Amazon's description or Order online!
October 2000

cover not available Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger See Amazon's description or Order online!
September 2000

cover not available O Jerusalem by Larry Collins, Dominique Lapierre See Amazon's description or Order online!
August 2000

cover not available Turbulent Souls by Stephen J. Dubner See Amazon's description or Order online!
July 2000

cover not available Kaaterskill Falls by Allegra Goodman See Amazon's description or Order online!
June 2000

cover not available The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon by Richard Zimler See Amazon's description or Order online!
May 2000

cover not available I Will Bear Witness by Victor Klemperer See Amazon's description or Order online!
April 2000

[No Image] Kadosh by Amos Gitai See Amazon's description or Order online!
March 2000 (a film at the Seattle Jewish Film Festival)

cover not available Empty the Ocean With a Spoon by Rosalie Sogolow See Amazon's description or Order online!
February 2000

cover not available The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe See Amazon's description or Order online!
January 2000

cover not available Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln by Glueckel See Amazon's description or Order online!
December 1999

cover not available Neurotica - Jewish Writers on Sex, by Melvin Jules Bukiet See Amazon's description or Order online!
November 1999

cover not available Generation J by Lisa Schiffman See Amazon's description or Order online!
October 1999

cover not available For the Relief of Unbearable Urges by Nathan Englander See Amazon's description or Order online!
September 1999

cover not available Tough Jews - Fathers, Sons, and Gangster Dreams by Rich Cohen See Amazon's description or Order online!
August 1999

cover not available The History of God - The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Karen Armstrong See Amazon's description or Order online!
July 1999

cover not available The Origin of Satan by Elaine Pagels See Amazon's description or Order online!
June 1999

cover not available The Diary of a Young Girl - The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank See Amazon's description or Order online!
May 1999

cover not available The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler See Amazon's description or Order online!
April 1999

cover not available The Mystic Quest - An Introduction to Jewish Mysticism by by David S. Ariel and Bonny V. Fetterman See Amazon's description or Order online!
March 1999 (webpage)

cover not available Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl See Amazon's description or Order online!
February 1999

cover not available Call It Sleep by Henry Roth See Amazon's description or Order online!
January 1999

cover not available The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare See Amazon's description or Order online!
December 1998

cover not available Mr. Mani by A.B. Yehoshua See Amazon's description or Order online!
November 1998

cover not available As a Driven Leaf by Milton Steinberg See Amazon's description or Order online!
October 1998

cover not available The Jewish War by Flavius Josephus See Amazon's description or Order online!
September 1998

cover not available Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels See Amazon's description or Order online!
August 1998

cover not available In the Name of Hope and Sorrow by Nao Ben Artzi-Pelossof See Amazon's description or Order online!
July 1998

cover not available He, She, and It by Marge Piercy See Amazon's description or Order online!
June 1998

cover not available Farewell Espana - The World of Sephardim Remembered by Howard Sachar See Amazon's description or Order online!
May 1998

cover not available A Book that was Lost and other Stories by S.Y. Agnon See Amazon's description or Order online!
April 1998

cover not available Patrimony by Philip Roth See Amazon's description or Order online!
March 1998

cover not available The Periodic Table by Primo Levi See Amazon's description or Order online!
February 1998

cover not available Blacks and Jews Alliances and Arguments by Paul Berman See Amazon's description or Order online!
January 1998

cover not available The Cross and the Pear Tree A Sephardic Journey by Victor Perera See Amazon's description or Order online!
December 1997

cover not available The Color of Water by James McBride See Amazon's description or Order online!
November 1997

cover not available Who Wrote the Bible? by Richard Elliot Friedman See Amazon's description or Order online!
October 1997

cover not available The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara by David Kertzer See Amazon's description or Order online!
September 1997

cover not available In the Beginning by Karen Armstrong See Amazon's description or Order online!
August 1997

cover not available Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen See Amazon's description or Order online!
July 1997

cover not available Boychiks in the Hood by Robert Eisenberg See Amazon's description or Order online!
June 1997

cover not available Nice Jewish Girls Growing up in America by Marlene Adler Marks See Amazon's description or Order online!
May 1997

cover not available Exodus and Revolution by Michael Walzer See Amazon's description or Order online!
April 1997

cover not available Stones from the River by Ursala Hegi See Amazon's description or Order online!
March 1997

cover not available Sacred Fragments by Neil Gilman See Amazon's description or Order online!
February 1997

cover not available The Jewish War by Tova Reich See Amazon's description or Order online!
January 1997

cover not available The Bintel Brief by Isaac Metzker See Amazon's description or Order online!
November 1996

cover not available The Dyke and the Dybbuk by Ellen Galford See Amazon's description or Order online!
October 1996

cover not available Why be Jewish by David Wolpe See Amazon's description or Order online!
September 1996

cover not available Words on Fire by Vanessa Ochs See Amazon's description or Order online!
August 1996

[No Image] Jephta's Daughter by Naomi Ragan See Amazon's description or Order online!
July 1996

cover not available Rachel Calof's Story by J. Sanford Rikoon See Amazon's description or Order online!
June 1996

cover not available Fima by Amos Oz See Amazon's description or Order online!
May 1996

cover not available Beyond Belief by Deborah Lipstadt See Amazon's description or Order online!
April 1996

cover not available A Romance Reader by Pearl Abrams See Amazon's description or Order online!
March 1996

cover not available Maus I and Maus II by Art Spiegelman See Amazon's description or Order online!
February 1996

cover not available Herzog by Saul Bellow See Amazon's description or Order online!
January 1996

[No Image] My Enemy, My Self by Yoram Binur. See Amazon's description or Order online!
November 1995

cover not available Souls on Fire by Elie Wiesal See Amazon's description or Order online!
August 1995

cover not available The Jew and the Lotus by Rodger Kaminetz See Amazon's description or Order online!
June 1995

cover not available Out of Egypt by Andre Aciman See Amazon's description or Order online!
May 1995

cover not available The Dybuk by S. Ansky See Amazon's description or Order online!
April 1995

cover not available From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas Friedman See Amazon's description or Order online!
March 1995

cover not available The Lover by AB Yehoshua See Amazon's description or Order online!
February 1995

cover not available The Fixer by Bernard Malamud See Amazon's description or Order online!
January 1995

cover not available Chutzpah by Alan Dershowitz See Amazon's description or Order online!
November 1994

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