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Houston great books

Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center 
Great Books Group

Contact

Marge Mayer 
margemayer8008@aol.com 
Janet Beck 
​janetbecklaw@comcast.net
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Day & Time

3rd Tuesday of every month
10 - 11 am

Location

Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center
5601 South Braeswood
Houston TX 77096
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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 Direction

Meeting place in the basement of Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center, free parking in front.


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"
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