Join the Forward’s book club! Our first pick: Anzia Yezierska’s ‘Bread Givers,’ a classic novel of 1920s Jewish life on the Lower East Side.
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Culture For National Book Lovers Day, join our next book club
It’s National Book Lovers Day, and there’s one great way to celebrate: Join the Forward’s book club! For our next set of meetings, we’re reading Fran Ross’s “Oreo.” The 1974 book, Ross’s only novel, has in recent years been hailed as an underappreciated masterpiece. Like Ross, its central character, Oreo — given name Christine Clark — is…
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Culture Join the Forward’s next book club — featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Geraldine Brooks
We organized The Forward Book Club on a whim, hoping to give our readers, and ourselves, a sense of community in a time of distance. Our first book was “Bread Givers” by Anzia Yezierska. Over our month of conversations about that novel, our meetings became something we looked forward to every week, an opportunity to…
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Culture Our second ‘Bread Givers’ book club discussion: Fighting for independence
Welcome to the second meeting of the Forward’s book club! Today’s meeting will take place live, over Zoom, at 2 pm EST. Please email us at [email protected] to get the link to today’s 2pm meeting! If you’re just joining us, we’re reading “Bread Givers” by Anzia Yezierska. Here’s a recap of our first reading, which…
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Culture Our first ‘Bread Givers’ book club discussion: The old world meets the new
Welcome to the first meeting of the Forward’s book club! Our first reading of “Bread Givers” by Anzia Yezierska took us through chapter three of Book I. (To make things simpler, we’re breaking up future readings by chapter, rather than page; the adjusted schedule is at the bottom of this story.) So, what happened? We…
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Culture Socially distancing? Join the Forward’s book club, and connect.
Dear reader: I hope you’ll join me in a new project we’re launching: The Forward Book Club. For me, it’s a way to combine something I love (reading) with something I crave (connection in a time of crisis). We’re going to start with a book that’s perfect for this moment: “The Bread Givers,” by Anzia…
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