KH Bookclub will meet Sunday, May 17 at 10:30 am to discuss the memoir Returning: A Search for Home Across Three Centuries, by Nicolas Lemann, Dean Emeritus of the Columbia School of Journalism and staff writer at The New Yorker.

Growing up in New Orleans, the son of German Jews in a world of gilded privilege, Nicholas Lemann had an unconventional Jewish upbringing. Keenly aware of the contradictions of being Jewish in the South, Lemann chafed both at its strict racial hierarchy and at his relatives’ eagerness to be accepted in a subtle but distinctly antisemitic environment. Returning follows Lehmann as he rejects assimilated society, embraces religion, and chooses, along with his wife, to raise his children in a Jewish world.

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