Book Club Community Shabbat Luncheon with Dr. Shaina Trapedo

A Community Shabbat Luncheon
Between the Wars:
Jewish Characters in 1920s & 1930s American Literature
with Dr. Shaina Trapedo

Shabbat, October 31 | Following Morning Services

You don’t have to be a book club member to enjoy this congenial luncheon with insights and guided discussion from Professor Shaina Trapedo of Yeshiva University. But if you would like to read any of the 22 books selected by our Book Club, you can find the list below.

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Dr. Shaina Trapedo is the director of the S. Daniel Abraham Honors Program at Stern College and the Jay & Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program at Yeshiva College, an Assistant Professor of English at Stern College, and a resident scholar at the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University. After receiving her undergraduate degree in Economics and English at Barnard College, she spent two years as a risk analyst before following her calling in academia. Shaina earned her PhD in English from the University of California, Irvine, where she specialized in early modern literature and religious studies. In her teaching and scholarship, Shaina explores the connections between the Torah, the humanities, and social engagement.

PRICING
Early Bird Deadline: Monday, October 5

Member adult: Early bird $48 | Regular $52

Non-member adult: Early bird $49 | Regular $54

Youth – $28

Sponsorships:

$180 includes up to 2 meals

$100  includes 1 meal

BOOK LIST

Collectively, our Book Club participants read all of the books listed below. Luncheon participants are welcome to read as many or as few of these as they like.

1. Hungry Hearts, by Anzia Yezierska
2. The Professor’s House, by Willa Cather
3. Manhattan Transfer, by John Dos Passos
4. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. Mendel Marantz, by David Freedman
6. Arrowsmith, by Sinclair Lewis
7. Bread Givers, by Anzia Yezierska
8. The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
9. “Fifty Grand”, by Ernest Hemingway (short story in the collection Men Without Women)
10. Dodsworth, by Sinclair Lewis
11. Cimarron, by Edna Ferber
12. Jews Without Money, by Michael Gold
13. “Old Mrs. Harris”, by Willa Cather (short story, published in Obscure Destinies)
14. A Cool Million, by Nathanael West
15. Call it Sleep, by Henry Roth
16. Absalom, Absalom, by William Faulkner (Professor Trapedo’s pick; we expect her to give special attention to this book)
17. The Education of Hyman Kaplan, by Leo Rosten
18. “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities”, by Delmore Schwartz (short story in a book by the same
title)
19. The Web and the Rock, by Thomas Wolfe
20. A Peculiar Treasure, by Edna Ferber
21. The Day of the Locust, by Nathanael West
22. You Can’t Go Home Again, by Thomas Wolfe