Homewood Public Library Events - January 2024

Holocaust Remembrance Panel Discussion - On the Possibilities & Limits of Forgiveness
Sunday, January 28, from 3-4:30 p.m. in the Large Auditorium

Please join us for this very special event in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Our panel will be answering the question raised in Simon Wiesenthal’s book The Sunflower: You are a prisoner in a concentration camp. A dying Nazi soldier asks for your forgiveness. What would you do?

Our Panel consists of Ann Mollengarden, a survivor’s daughter and researcher for the Alabama Holocaust Education Center; Chris Berdy, a 2G survivor and a lawyer interested in postwar justice and working to bring stolen artwork back to its rightful Jewish owners; Rabbi Weinbaum of Chabad and Rabbi Friedman; and The Rev. Katherine Harper, Associate Rector for Pastoral Care & Liturgy at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church. Each participant will answer the question about the possibilities and limits of forgiveness in light of their own life experiences. Register at homewoodpubliclibrary.org.

Upcoming Book Clubs & Topic Discussions

Read It & Eat Book Club – Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Thursday, January 4, from 6:30-8 p.m. Urban Cookhouse

Join us for Barbara Kingsolver’s latest Demon Copperhead. Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, this is the story of an irrepressible boy nobody wants, but readers will love. We meet at the Urban Cookhouse in Homewood. Food is not provided by the Library, but participants are encouraged to order beverages/food. Place the book on hold at hpl.pub/catalog.

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