METRO - CT - Westport Chapter - September Book Club - 2025

Hadassah Westport Chapter
September Book Club
Tuesday, September 9 · 6:45 pm
in Weston, CT (Address provided upon registration)

We will be reading and discussing Songs For The Brokenhearted by Ayalet Tsabari.

Songs for the Brokenhearted is a gentle, yet evocative debut novel that unfolds in two alternating narratives and timelines. The first is about young Saida and Yaqub, who fall in ill-fated love at an Israeli camp for Yemenite Jewish immigrants in 1950. The second is about Zohara Haddad, a graduate student in New York City who travels home to Israel in 1995 upon learning of her mother, Saida’s, death. As Zohara mourns, she unravels a secret life her mother led that is revealed through a collection of recorded songs on cassettes she discovers. While Zohara embarks on a quest to know more about her mother’s hidden past, she must confront her own identity crisis as an Israeli Jew who has repeatedly been othered in her greater Jewish communities.

There is no charge to attend but donations are appreciated.
Everyone must RSVP by 9/4 - No Walk-ins

According to Hadassah policy, advance registration and a signed participant release are required for all events.

If you have any questions or you need help registering, please contact: connecticut@Hadassah.org OR (973) 241-1500