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FIFTH ANNUAL CHEYENNE DAY OF GIVING
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SARAH’S KEY by Tatiana de Rosnay A New York Times bestseller.

Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Velodrome d’Hiver roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours.

Paris, May 2002: On Velodrome d’Hiver’s 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France's past. Through her contemporary investigation, she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connect her to Sarah. Julia finds herself compelled to retrace the girl's ordeal, from that terrible roundup in the Velodrome d'Hiver, to the camps, and beyond. As she probes into Sarah's past, she begins to question her own place in France, and to reevaluate her marriage and her life.

Tatiana de Rosnay offers us a brilliantly subtle, compelling portrait of France under occupation and reveals the taboos and silence that surround this painful episode.

Tatiana de Rosnay was born in the suburbs of Paris and is of English, French and Russian descent.  She is the author of nine French novels.  Sarah's Key is her first novel written in her mother tongue, English.

“A powerful novel… Tatiana de Rosnay has captured the insane world of the Holocaust and the efforts of the few good people who stood up against it in this work of fiction more effectively than has been done in many scholarly studies. It is a book that makes us sensitive to how much evil occurred and also to how much willingness to do good also existed in that world.” --Rabbi Jack Riemer, South Florida Jewish Journal

“SARAH’S KEY unlocks the star crossed, heart thumping story of an American journalist in Paris and the 60-year-old secret that could destroy her marriage.  This book will stay on your mind long after it's back on the shelf.” –Risa Miller, author of Welcome to Heavenly Heights

“This is a remarkable historical novel... it's a book that impresses itself upon one's heart and soul forever.” –Naomi Ragen, author of The Saturday Wife

HADDASAH BOOK GROUP, LARAMIE, AUG. 1, 3:30 PM

SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE WEEKEND
AUGUST 14 & 15, 2010

MT. SINAI CONGREGATION
2610 Pioneer, Cheyenne WY
307-634-3052
www.mtsinaicheyenne.org

Please join us in welcoming Rabbi David J. Zucker to Cheyenne.  Rabbi Zucker has been the full-time Rabbi/Chaplain at Shalom Park, a senior continuum of care center in Aurora, CO since 1994.  He is also the Senior Jewish Chaplain at Beth Nehamah Hospice in Aurora.   From 1970 through 1991 he served as a congregational rabbi at synagogues in England, Alabama, Missouri, and Colorado

Rabbi Zucker has also taught numerous courses as a Visiting Lecturer, Assistant Professor, and Adjunct Professor.  He was ordained at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, OH in 1970 and received his Ph.D. at the University of Birmingham, England in 1977.  For more information about Rabbi Zucker’s extensive writings, teachings, and other activities, see his website at www.DavidJZucker.org

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