One Book One Jewish Community
Come to Shabbat services on March 17th as HAZAK is recognized for its role at Temple Beth Sholom. Join us at Kiddush and a stay for a discussion of 'The List' by Martin Fletcher.
Mitchell Josephs will lead the session. Members of book clubs and lovers of reading are encouraged to attend. Add your voice.
Click here for a list of discussion questions.
Hazak will once again have a role in One Book One Jewish Community.
During the 2010-2011 book year, OBOJC collaborated with 75 Program Partners, providing them with the educational and programmatic resources and the support needed to develop and implement over 60 programs. OBOJC enhances adult Jewish learning in the Greater Philadelphia Jewish Community by promoting conversations, discussions and events stimulated by a selected book and its themes. Synagogues, organizations and other community institutions adopt the featured book as a vehicle for conversation and study.
Announcing the 2011-2012 
Feature Selection:
THE LIST
by Martin Fletcher
(publishing October 11, 2011)
Martin Fletcher was NBC Middle East correspondent and Tel Aviv Bureau Chief for more than three decades.
Born in London, Fletcher graduated from the University of Bradford in 1970. He worked as a French and German interpreter for the Common Market before beginning a career as a television news programming writer for VisNews in the UK in 1970. He joined the BBC, writing on the main evening news program, the 9 o'clock News, until returning to VisNews after learning to be a news cameraman. After four years in Belgium, Israel and Rhodesia, he joined NBC News.
Fletcher began his NBC career as a cameraman in 1977 and then moved over to his Tel Aviv assignment in 1982, becoming Bureau Chief in 1996. He has won five Emmy Awards for his work on the first and then second Palestinian uprisings, the horrors of war in Rwanda and Kosovo, and then for his story on trauma medicine in Israel. Other awards in his distinguished career include the television Pulitzer, the DuPont from Columbia University, five Overseas Press Club Awards, several Edward R. Murrow awards, a Hugo gold medal for a documentary on Israel which he shared with other NBC staffers, and an award from the Royal Society of television in Britain.
His previous books include Breaking News and Walking Israel, for which he won a Jewish National Book Award. Today he serves as an NBC News Special Correspondent. Fletcher and his wife and family live in Israel and the US.
Fletcher uses meticulous research and his own family's history in this stunning novel.
Dramatizing explosive events in London and Palestine in the years directly following World War II, The List follows the lives of Edith and Georg, Austrian refugees who are expecting their first baby in a world unfriendly to Jews. Anti-Semitism sweeps across the streets of London even as the world learns of the atrocities of the Holocaust. As Edith and Georg desperately search for surviving family members, they struggle to stay afloat in a world riddled with terrorism, assassination attempts, and fear.
HAZAK will order books. The cover price of The List is $25.99 but we are making them available at $15. Orders must be placed by Thursday, September 1st.
Return a check made out to TBS HAZAK. Include name, phone, email and number of copies at $15 each. Mail or drop off to: Alan Blocher c/o Temple Beth Sholom HAZAK, 1901 Kresson Road, Cherry Hill, NJ 08003. For questions call Zelda at 856-751-4201. Books will be delivered to TBS after the publisher's release date of October 11, 2011.
The List will also be available as a digital download through Amazon and several other vendors at a price of $12.99. Please order via the Amazon link on the OBOJC website and OBOJC will receive a portion of the proceeds.
