Book Club

Tuesday, August 4 at 7:00pm

Discussion led by Rabbi Roni Handler and Paula Dvorak

The World That We Knew, by Alice Hoffman

BTBJ will again be participating in the One Book, One Jewish Community Program.  During WWII, two girls Ettie and Lea become friends. Ettie, the daughter of a rabbi creates a golem named Ava to watch over Lea.  The golem is created in the spirit of a heron, and will help protect Lea, who is on the run from the Nazis. The two girls become entwined, their paths fated to cross, and fortunes linked through Ava.

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