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Bookclub: “Stolen Beauty” by Laurie Lico Albanese

by Josie Zeman

Shomrei Book Club

stolen beautyThe Shomrei Book Club will meet on Monday, June 12 at 7:30 p.m. to talk about “Stolen Beauty” by Laurie Lico Albanese , who appeared  at Shomrei for @nourish in April.

This fictional  story of the famous painting by Gustav Klimt “Woman in Gold” is told by two women living in different time periods:  Adele Bloch-Bauer, the subject of the work, who lived in VIenna  in the early 1900s; and her niece Maria Altmann, who lived under Nazi rule in Vienna in the late 1930s. Please join us and bring a friend!

We welcome anyone with an interest in books to join us for the meeting.

Josie Zeman

All are welcome to join us. Contact Josie Zeman at  for more information if you are interested.

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  • Josie Zeman

    Josie Zeman joined Shomrei in 2007 (not sure) shortly after moving to Montclair to find a compatible community in retirement. She volunteers to do public relations outreach for Shomrei, helps in the office, and the kitchen, organizes sessions of the monthly Book Club, takes classes with the rabbi to learn all the things about Judaism that she never knew growing up in a Reform congregation in the South. She is proud to be a member of this dynamic synagogue!

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