Temple Beth Emet Book Club
Conducted by Barbara Harmon
Book Club was founded by Fran Bourne Johnson Z”L*
*Her memory will always be a blessing to us.
Where:
Blum Hall at Temple Beth Emet of Burbank
When:
Wednesday, May 29, 2024 – 7:00PM to 8:30 PM
What book will we be reading?
People of the Book – by Geraldine Brooks
Synopsis:
Inspired by a true story, People of the Book is a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity by an acclaimed and beloved author. Called “a tour de force” by the San Francisco Chronicle, this ambitious, electrifying work traces the harrowing journey of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a beautifully illuminated Hebrew manuscript created in fifteenth-century Spain. When it falls to Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, to conserve this priceless work, the series of tiny artifacts she discovers in its ancient binding—an insect wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair—only begin to unlock its deep mysteries and unexpectedly plunges Hanna into the intrigues of fine art forgers and ultranationalist fanatics.
Synopsis courtesy of Amazon
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