🅉 JCA Book Group
“My 30 minute Bar Mitzvah“ by Denis Hirson
JCA Book Group
Thursday, December 19
7pm on Zoom
the zoom link will be sent out the week before the meeting
We will be discussing “My 30 minute Bar Mitzvah“ by Denis Hirson
The book has been reviewed as “a beautifully written, funny, and deeply moving“ memoir about a son’s reckoning with his father‘s political idealism set against the menacing backdrop of the apartheid era in South Africa ..“
Stephen Clingman, Umass Emeritus Professor of English, is Denis Hirson‘s cousin and recommended the book. He’s offered to be available on zoom for an introduction, including information about the apartheid era in South African history from the perspective of someone Jewish( JCA member) who lived it.
If you have any questions about the meeting or content, please contact Ken Talan 413-896-3372.