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My recommendations this
month offer a “behind the scene”
look into the lives of circus per
formers and magicians ... the
plots however are hardly the sce
narios you would expect. One is
about a circus family during the
Holocaust; the other about four
siblings haunted by a gypsy’s pre
diction of the dates of their deaths.
The Immortalists
by Chloe Benjamin
If you knew the date of your
death, how would you live your
life?
It’s 1969 in New York City’s
Lower East Side, and word has
spread of the arrival of a mystical
woman, a traveling psychic who
claims to be able to tell anyone the
day they will die. The Gold chil
dren — four adolescents on the
cusp of self-awareness — sneak
out to hear their fortunes.
Their prophecies inform their
next five decades. Golden-boy
Simon escapes to the West Coast,
searching for love in ‘80s San
Francisco; dreamy Klara becomes
a Las Vegas magician, obsessed
with blurring reality and fantasy;
eldest son Daniel seeks security as
an army doctor post-9/11 hoping
to control fate; and bookish Varya
throws herself into longevity re
search, where she tests the bound
ary between science and
immortality.
A sweeping novel of remark
able ambition and depth. The Im
mortalists is a deeply moving
testament to the power of story,
the nature of belief, and the unre-
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(Book Browse)
I found The Immortalists to be
an unusual, intriguing and com
pelling book which raises multiple
questions about the power of sug
gestion, choice vs. destiny, and re
ality vs. illusion.
The Orphan’s Tale
by Pam Jenoff
The Orphan s Tale is a power
ful novel of friendship set in a
traveling circus during World War
11. This work of historical fiction
is an unusual Holocaust story
about hidden Jews and righteous
gentiles, and the struggles they
faced to ensure the safety of their
circus “family.”
The Orphan s Tale introduces
Noa and Astrid, two extraordinary
women and their harrowing sto
ries of sacrifice and survival. Six-
teen-year-old Noa is cast out of
her family in disgrace after be
coming pregnant by a Nazi soldier
and is forced to give up her baby.
In a moment that will change the
course of her life, she discovers a
boxcar containing dozens of Jew
ish infants bound for a concentra
tion camp, snatches one of the
babies and flees into the snowy
night.
Noa finds refuge with a Ger
man circus, but she must learn the
flying trapeze act so she can blend
in undetected, spuming the resent
ment of the lead aerialist, Astrid.
At first rivals, Noa and Astrid
soon forge a powerful bond. But
as the facade that protects them
proves increasingly tenuous, Noa
and Astrid must decide whether
their friendship is enough to save
one another — or if the secrets
that bum between them will de
stroy everything.
Each of these books can be
found in the Center for Jewish Ed
ucation.
CJE Book Club News
The CJE Book Club meets the
third Wednesday of the month
from 10:30 AM- 12 noon in the
Center for Jewish Education.
April 18 - All the Rivers, Dorit
Rabinyan
May 16 - Don’t Let My Baby
Do Rodeo, Boris Fishman ^
Check out what’s happening this month at the CJE ?
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Jewish-American Heritage Month Book and Author Program
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CONTENTS
Federation News
p. 1
Dining Out
p. 18
Sue’s Book Shelf.
P- 2
Youth Visions
pp. 18,19
Synagogues/Cong
PP- 3-9
Community News
..pp. 20, 24, 25
Schools
pp. 11-14
Jewish Community Center.
pp. 22, 23
Jewish Family Services
pp. 15,17
Yom HaShoah
pp. 26-35
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