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This fall, Let’s Talk About It: Jewish Literature, Identity
and Imagination, a scholar-led reading and discussion series
for libraries interested in exploring Jewish literature and culture,
came to Georgetown under the co-sponsorship of The Program for
Jewish Civilization, the Georgetown University Main Campus Libraries,
the Library Associates, the National Resource Center on the Middle
East and in Partnership with Temple Micah. The program, made
possible by a grant from the American Library Association, supports
training, program materials, and honoraria for participating
scholars at participating libraries across the country. Five books were chosen to explore the theme of “Between
Two Worlds, Stories of Estrangement and Homecoming. “ Lost
in Translation, by Eva Hoffman, is a memoir that describes the
experience of exile. Saul Bellow’s Mr. Sammler’s
Planet features the misogynist Sammler, a Holocaust survivor
and aging intellectual. André Aciman presents a rich portrait
of a Jewish family from cosmopolitan Alexandria, Egypt in Out
of Egypt. Moacyr Scliar’s The Centaur in the Garden follows
the life of the title character born into a family of Russian
immigrants in Rio Grande do Sul. Finally, Allegra Goodman’s
first novel, Kaaterskill Falls, intertwines the stories of three
Orthodox Jewish families in an upstate New York town.
More information on the ongoing program at Lauinger Library
and around the country can be found at www.nextbook.org and www.ala.org.
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