Sisterhood Book Club Schmooze
Tue, May 24
|Temple Emanuel
This month's book is The Slaughterman's Daughter by Yaniv Iczkovits
Time & Location
May 24, 2022, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Temple Emanuel, 1129 Jefferson Rd, Greensboro, NC 27410, USA
Guests
About the event
The Sisterhood book club will discuss The Slaughterman's Daughter by Yaniv Iczkovits on Tuesday, May 24 th at 1:00 p.m. at Temple Emanuel.
Future dates and books
Tuesday, June 28th - The Book of Lost Names by, Kristin Harmel
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About the book:
An irresistible, picaresque tale of two Jewish sisters in late-nineteenth-century Russia, The Slaughterman’s Daughter is filled with “boundless imagination and a vibrant style” (David Grossman). With her reputation as a vilde chaya (wild animal), Fanny Keismann isn’t like the other women in her shtetl in the Pale of Settlement—certainly not her obedient and anxiety-ridden sister, Mende, whose “philosopher” of a husband, Zvi-Meir, has run off to Minsk, abandoning her and their two children. As a young girl, Fanny felt an inexorable pull toward her father’s profession of ritual slaughterer and, under his reluctant guidance, became a master with a knife. And though she long ago gave…