June 28 | 11am (PT) | RSVP Below
OJMCHE’s book club, led by museum friend and member Debra Vinikour, will meet every other month midday at the museum. The book selection for June is The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen. The title is available at Powell’s and online.
To stay in the loop about book club activities, email media@ojmche.org and we will keep you updated.
About June’s Book Selection
Corbin College, not quite upstate New York, winter 1959–1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian—but not a historian of the Jews—is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition. When Benzion Netanyahu shows up for an interview, family unexpectedly in tow, Blum plays the reluctant host to guests who proceed to lay waste to his American complacencies. Mixing fiction with nonfiction, the campus novel with the lecture, The Netanyahus is a wildly inventive, genre-bending comedy of blending, identity, and politics that finds Joshua Cohen at the height of his powers.