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BUGSY SIEGEL
The Dark Side of the American Dream
by Michael Shnayerson

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 2023
@ 7 PM
Presented by Robert Abrams

In a brief life that led to a violent end, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (1906-1947) rose from desperate poverty to ill-gotten riches, from an early-20th-century family of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants on the Lower East Side to a kingdom of his own making in Las Vegas. In this captivating portrait, author Michael Shnayerson sets out not to absolve Bugsy Siegel but rather to understand him in all his complexity.

Bob has been an educator in Jewish studies for adults of all ages and children from middle school through their teen years. He continues to teach both as a career choice and as an avocation."
He is also a favorite presenter of Book Talks.
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ATOMIC ANNA
by Rachel Barenbaum (author of a Bend in the Stars)

WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 2023
@ 7 PM
Presented by Rhonda Ginsberg
 
“Epic, ambitious, and gripping, Atomic Anna is a wildly inventive novel that teems with life and grapples with the big questions of science, art, love, and humanity. Rachel Barenbaum is a propulsive writer who takes readers on a journey through time via the lives of three generations of extraordinary women who come together to try to change the course of history and undo the mistakes of their past. Atomic Anna is a trip through time well worth taking. I couldn't put it down.”
 ―Lara Prescott, New York Times bestselling author of The Secrets We Kept.

Morah Rhonda Ginsberg currently teaches 5th and 6th grade Judaic Studies and Hebrew at Kesher Beth El as well as having taught at Carmel Academy. She has been a frequent presented at Book Talks.
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