Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center
Great Books Group
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(Notice: we are temporarily meeting in the Westbury United Methodist Church, 5100 Willowbend, until JCC repairs are completed)
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What We Are Reading
We read selections from anthologies by the Great Books Foundation. Currently we are alternating between Great Conversations 1; Immigrant Voices: 21st Century Voices; Counterparts; Standing Down: From Warrior to Civilian; Seven Deadly Sins; and Imperfect Ideal: Utopian and Dystopian Visions. |
Additional DirectionMeeting place in the basement of Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center, free parking in front.
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Archive of Past Readings
May 7, 2013: Freud, "Why War?"
June 18,2013: Thucydides, "The Melian Dialogue"
July 16, 2013: William James, "The Social Me" and Chekhov, "Rothschild's Fiddle"
August 20, 2013: Adam Smith, "Concerning the Division of Labor" and de Tocqueville, "How an Aristocracy may be created by industry"
September 17, 2013: Maxim Gorky, "Chelkash"
October 15, 2013: Claude Bernard, "Observation and Experiment" and Flannery O'Connor, "Everything that rises must converge"
November 19,2013: Roger Fry, "An Essay in Aesthestics"
December 17, 2013: Joseph Conrad, "An Outpost of Progress"
January 21, 2014: Jose Ortega y Gasset, "On Studying"
see the calendar for more recent readings, click on "Look for earlier events"
June 18,2013: Thucydides, "The Melian Dialogue"
July 16, 2013: William James, "The Social Me" and Chekhov, "Rothschild's Fiddle"
August 20, 2013: Adam Smith, "Concerning the Division of Labor" and de Tocqueville, "How an Aristocracy may be created by industry"
September 17, 2013: Maxim Gorky, "Chelkash"
October 15, 2013: Claude Bernard, "Observation and Experiment" and Flannery O'Connor, "Everything that rises must converge"
November 19,2013: Roger Fry, "An Essay in Aesthestics"
December 17, 2013: Joseph Conrad, "An Outpost of Progress"
January 21, 2014: Jose Ortega y Gasset, "On Studying"
see the calendar for more recent readings, click on "Look for earlier events"
