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July Sessions of Rabbi Fenster's Book Club
To Study a Memoir by Yiddish Writer Chaim Grade
Members of Rabbi Fenster's Book Club will study a memoir by Chaim Grade
(pronounced Grah-duh) titled My Mother's Sabbath Days, on July 22 and 29, at 5:15 p.m., in the community room of the synagogue. The memoir tells the story of Grade's widowed mother, who peddled fruit to survive in Vilna, the author's flight from Stalin's
Soviet Union and his despair at finding Vilna ultimately destroyed. Chaim Grade was born in Vilna, Russia, now Vilnius, Lithuania. Primarily a writer of poetry, short stories and novels, his fiction reflects the lost culture of European Yiddish writers. Grade, like Isaac Bachevis Singer, whose novel, Shosha, was the subject of the June sessions of the Book Club, is one of the most important Yiddish writers of the 20th century.
Interested members and friends are invited to join the July sessions by calling
Adrianne Greenberg, the shul's program director, at 477-0813.
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