Feb 5 @ 7:30 PM -- Her Life and Diary -- Hannah Senesh (part 1)

Join us to discuss the 1st half of  "Her Life and Diary" by Hannah Senesh.

Find it on page 207-228 of The Soul of the Text: Anthology of Jewish Literature - Great Books Foundation.

Denver Public Library has copies of this documentary:

Narrates the remarkable journey of Hannah Senesh, a young Hungarian poet and diarist, paratrooper and resistance fighter. Told through Hannah's letters, diaries, poems, and the recollections of those who knew her, the film traces Hannah's life from childhood in Palestine to her daring WWII mission to rescue Jews in her native Hungary. Narrated by Joan Allen.

2010

1. Blessed is the match the life and death of Hannah Senesh

Call Number: 940.5 B DVD

Available Copies: 2 (of 4)

Jan 22 @ 7:30 PM: The Case for Leaving City Rats Alone

Join us to discuss "The  Case for Leaving City Rats Alone" by Becca Cudmore.

Find it on page 59 of Best American Science & Nature Writing - 2107

Read it on line at: http://nautil.us/issue/38/noise/the-case-for-leaving-city-rats-alone

Tues, Jan 8 @ 7:30 PM

Join us to discuss "The Land of Israel" by Abraham Isaac Kook.

Find it on page 200 of The Soul of the Text: Anthology of Jewish Literature - Great Books Foundation.

Tues, Dec 18 @ 7:30 PM

We next discuss "The Billion Year Wave" by Nicola Twilley

Find it on page 27 of Best American Science & Nature Writing - 2107

Read it on line at: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/gravitational-waves-exist-heres-how-scientists-finally-found-them

Please notice the attached schedule. By next April we will need to start a new collection, possibly from Best American Short Stories or from the Great Books foundation.  See: American Short Stories, Student Book - Grades 9–12 - K-12 Programs | Great Books Store

I welcome suggestions.  

Tues, Dec 4 @ 7:30 PM: Fable of the Goat | Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway-Car

Join us to discuss the poem, "Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway-Car" by Dan Pagis and "Fable of the Goat" by S.Y. Agnon.

Find them on page 191 and 195 of The Soul of the Text: Anthology of Jewish Literature - Great Books Foundation.

Read Fable of the Goat at: https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/three-stories-fable-of-the-goat/

WRITTEN IN PENCIL IN THE SEALED RAILWAY-CAR

here in this carload
i am eve
with abel my son
if you see my other son
cain son of man
tell him that i

Nov 20 @ 7:30 PM: Secrets of the Wave Pilots

For thousands of years, sailors in the Marshall Islands have navigated vast distances of open ocean without instruments. Can science explain their method before it’s lost forever?

Join us to discuss "Secrets of the Wave Pilots" by Kim Tingley.  Find it on page 27 of Best American Science & Nature Writing - 2107

Read it on line at:  https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/magazine/the-secrets-of-the-wave-pilots.html

Tues, Nov 6 @ 7:30 PM + updated schedule

Please join us to discuss "Miriam" by Ivan Klima

See page 172 of "The Soul of the Text - An Anthology of Jewish Literature."