Ellen Golub kidnaps the sharp-tongued Sheyne Sheyndel and her luftmensch husband, Menachem Mendel, from Sholem Aleichem's 1890s shtetl stories and drops them off in contemporary America. They have one foot in the secular world-think Starbucks, Prozac, pornography-and the other in the world to come-think Shabbat, kashrut, and davening. This witty novel weaves together neuropsychiatry, quantum physics, and the Talmud, navigating the paradoxical straits of modern Jewish identity in a linguistic vessel infused with Yiddish and Hebrew. 

For more information on the book, please visit: www.jewishbookcountil.org/book/psychosemitic 

Introduction by Shulamit Reinharz, Founding Director, Hadassah-Brandeis Institute

Refreshments

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