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October 11, 2026
Book for October 11:
Denis Hirson, My Thirty-Minute Bar Mitzvah: A Memoir (memoir, 2024, 192 pages).
Recreating 1960s Johannesburg through his adolescent eyes, bestselling South African author Denis Hirson gradually reveals the details of his extraordinary 13th birthday as he explores the familial and political divisions in Apartheid South Africa that weighed on him and his developing consciousness of his Jewish heritage. https://www.amazon.com/dp/180533753
The AARC Book Group will meet for lunch followed by a book discussion. Please contact Greg Saltzman (gsaltzman@albion.edu) for more information. Zoom also available.
