A Reform and Conservative Synagogue Serving the Rivertowns
A Reform and Conservative Synagogue Serving the Rivertowns
Join us for a moderated discussion about books with Jewish themes. This monthÕs selection: “A Mother’s Secret” by Carolyn Haddad.
This saga of maternal love covers almost 50 years in the lives of two women and the daughter they share. Eliza Wolf, a Jewish partisan fighting in the Polish forest during WW II, desperately pleads with villager Wanda Zbyszek to shelter her baby daughter from the Nazis. Wanda grows to love the child and flees Poland for America with Mina in tow. In her new life, Wanda finds a husband and raises Mina as her daughter and a Catholic. Meanwhile Eliza, having searched fruitlessly for her child, goes to Israel where she marries and has a family, but she is never reconciled to the loss of Mina. Will Mina ever be reunited with her birth mother? If so, what will become of the mother who raised her?
Discussion moderated by congregant Linda Gerstman.
$5.00 suggested donation per guest.
RSVP: (914) 631-1770 adulted@tba-ny.org
