Join the Etz Bookworms reading The Weight of Ink, by Rachel Kadish, and meet to discuss the book on Sunday, April 1, at 4:30 p.m.

The Weight of Ink, by Rachel Kadish, which fittingly enough won the National Jewish Book Award for the Book Club category. The meeting to discuss The Weight of Ink will be held during Pesach, on Sunday, April 1. The Etz Bookworms now meet on the first Sunday of every month, except when we don't.

Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi, just before the plague hits the city; and Helen Watt, an ailing historian with a love of Jewish history.

The Weight of Ink from Amazon description:

As the novel opens, Helen has been summoned by a former student to view a cache of seventeenth-century Jewish documents newly discovered in his home during a renovation. Enlisting the help of Aaron Levy, an American graduate student as impatient as he is charming, and in a race with another fast-moving team of historians, Helen embarks on one last project: to determine the identity of the documents’ scribe, the elusive “Aleph.”

Electrifying and ambitious, sweeping in scope and intimate in tone, The Weight of Ink is a sophisticated work of historical fiction about women separated by centuries, and the choices and sacrifices they must make in order to reconcile the life of the heart and mind.

Etz Bookworms

Future meetings are all on first Sundays, at 4:30 pm, at Etz Chayim, in one of the classrooms in the quieter wing of the building. Dates: 4/08/2018, 5/06/2018, 6/03/2018, 7/08/2018, & 8/05/2018.