The Marsha Razin z”l Book & Film Club will meet January 13, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. to discuss Button Man by Andrew Gross.
New York, 1930s. Morris, Sol, and Harry Rabishevsky grew up poor and rough on the Lower East Side, until the death of their father forced them to fend for themselves and support the family. Morris, the youngest yet most driven of the brothers, apprentices himself to a garment manufacturer; bookish Sol drops out of accounting school; and Harry, always the tough one, believes he can help out by learning the ways and means of a charismatic local crime figure. Later, when Morris and Sol find career success and decide to create their own business, Harry can’t be lured away from the glamour and prestige that comes from being a “button man” – a gun man – for Louis Buchalter, now the most ruthless mobster in the city. When Buchalter sets his sights on the unions that control the garment factories, a fatal showdown becomes inevitable, pitting brother against brother. The New York Times called this an unforgettable tale of a Jewish family torn apart by the birth of organized crime.
Our Book and Film Club is open to all interested adults in the area. All meetings and materials are in English. The meetings will be held on the second Monday of each month, unless otherwise indicated. When are discussing a book, the meeting will start at 7:30 p.m. When we watch a film, the meeting will start at 7:15 p.m.
We wish we could tell you where all the meetings will take place – at the Library or on Zoom, but as you know, nothing right now can be predicted, so we’ll be taking the location month by month for a while.
A 10 NIS donation is requested when films are shown.
The next meeting will be February 10, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. to discuss Eternal by Lisa Scottoline.
See the full 2024-25 lineup here.