35. Mar 14, 2013
Steven Johnson - Where Good Ideas Come From?
YES - Ashner Fasciano Esslinger Casparian Mitra Goldstein Kennedy Suozzi Charash Tona Lesko Iacovone Cooper Essliger Madore (Newsday)
34. Jan 24, 2012
Holt - Why Does the World Exist?
YES - Ashner Fasciano Hauser Suozzi Kennedy Esslinger Tona Mayrock Pascucci Charash Smith Iacovone O'Shea Greene Goldstein
33. Dec 3, 2012
Tolstoy - The Death of Ivan Illyich
YES (13) Ashner Fasciano Iacovone Cooper Casparian Greene O'Shea MItra Kennedy Charash Lydia (Bruce friend) Suozzi Smith Mayrock
32. Oct 23, 2012
Sendel - What Money Can't Buy
YES (11) Ashner Fasciano Goldstein Pascucci Iacovone Byers Mayrock Rosenfeld Cooper Tona Kennedy
31. Sep 5, 2012
1984 (Orwell)
Animal Farm (Orwell)
Homage to Catalonia (Orwell)
YES (11) Ashner Fasciano Goldstein Pascucci Iacovone Mayrock Rosenfeld Cooper Casparian Hauser Kennedy
30. Jul 25, 2012
Home and the World (Tagore)
YES (12) Ashner Fasciano Casparian Tona Mitra Pascucci Cooper O'Shea Kennedy Charash Smith Lesko
29. Jun 19, 2012
Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
YES (7) Ashner Fasciano Tona Hauser Rosenfeld Iacovone Kennedy
28. May 1, 2012
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Tom Wolfe)
YES (8) Ashner Fasciano Casparian Goldstein Rosenfeld Iacovone Mitra Mayrock
27. Mar 21, 2012
The Better Angels of our Nature (Steven Pinker)
YES (10) Ashner Fasciano Mayrock Smith Charash Lesko Pascucci Kennedy Cooper Tona Rosenfeld
Thinking Fast and Slow (Kahneman)
25. Wed Dec 7
The Information (James Gleick)
YES (12): Ashner Fasciano Tona Goldstein Casparian Cooper O'Shea Iacovone Rosenfeld Byers Kennedy Smith
24. OCTOBER 26, 2011
Wilder: The Bridge of San Luis Rey (PRIMARY)
Melville: Billy Budd (SECONDARY)
Dostoevsky: "Grand Inquisitor" chapter of Brothers Karamazov (SECONDARY)
YES: (10) Ashner Fasciano Iacovone Goldstein Smith Mayrock Pascucci Kennedy Casparian Tona
23. SEPTEMBER 12, 2011
Edmund Morris: Colonel Roosevelt
YES Ashner Fasciano Goldstein O'Shea Cooper Pascucci Iacovone Casparian Tona Kennedy Rosenfeld Mitra Foye Marlin
22. JULY 11, 2011
Henry Kissinger: On China
YES (14) Ashner Fasciano Pascucci Smith Tona Charash Goldstein Mayrock Cooper Green Rosenfeld Byers Kennedy
21. MAY 26, 2011
YES (15) Ashner Fasciano Pascucci Tona Charash Hauser Goldstein Mayrock Casparian Mitra Smith Cooper Lesko Joshua-Green (Izzy)
20. APRIL 7, 2011
Ralph Gibson: Deus Ex Machina
YES (11): Ashner Fasciano Hauser Mayrock Mitra Kennedy Casparian Cooper Charash Lisa_Puntillo Lesko
ALSO (4): Gibson Gibson_wife Fischl April_Gopnick
19. MARCH 10, 2011
Stephen Johnson: Emergence
YES (11) Ashner Fasciano Capsarian Byers Mitra Hauser Iacovone Rosenfeld Tona Cooper
18: FEBRUARY 8, 2011
Snyder: Bloodlands
YES Ashner Fasciano Pascucci Charash Byers Isikoff Iacovone Kennedy Mayrock Murcott Marisa + David and Lillian Gewirtzman
David Gewirtzman
Born in Losice, Poland, David was eleven years old at the start of World War II. Initially, David was confined in a ghetto and then in a labor camp. Eventually, David, his parents and a dozen other Jews hid under the pigsty of a poor Polish farmer for nearly two years. David’s immediate family survived intact, but they were among only sixteen people from Losice, formerly a town with a population of 8,000 Jews, to survive the Holocaust. David came to Long Island after the war, where he became a pharmacist and raised a family.
Lillian Gewirtzman
Lillian was born in Grabowiec, located in a region of Poland occupied by the Soviets until 1941. She and her family fled farther into the USSR in front the German invasion. They resided in Siberia, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan. Between 1946 and 1951, Lillian lived in a Displaced Persons Camp in Germany. This experience prompted her to curate the Center’s Displaced Persons Exhibit, which is currently on display and which has been shown throughout the US and internationally.
17. DECEMBER 2010
Schulz: Being Wrong
Ariely: Predictably Irrational
>>> Dec 13 (13) Ashner Fasciano Casparian Byers Smith Mayrock Tona Mitra Iacovone Rosenfeld Pascucci Kennedy Charash
Machiavelli: The Prince
Le Carre: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
>>> Nov 8 (8) Ashner Fasciano Smith Mayrock Pascucci Charash Tona Rosenfeld
15: SEPTEMBER 2010
Eric Fischl:1975-2007
Attending: Ashner (with Susan) Fasciano Mayrock Casparian Hauser (plus wife) Mitra Foye Rosenfeld Byers Kennedy (with Amy) Pascucci (with Lisa) Iacovone Tona Wells (Kathy, Carol) Fischl
Attending: Ashner (with Susan) Fasciano Mayrock Casparian Hauser (plus wife) Mitra Foye Rosenfeld Byers Kennedy (with Amy) Pascucci (with Lisa) Iacovone Tona Wells (Kathy, Carol) Fischl
14: AUGUST 2010
Robert McNamara: In Retrospect
Errol Morris: Fog of War
Attending: Ashner Fasciano Mayrock Casparian Hauser Goldstein Iacovone Charash Kennedy Pascucci Smith Rosenfeld Tona
13: JULY 2010
Malcom Gladwell: Outliers (also Taleb: Fooled by Randomness)
Attending: Ashner Fasciano Charash Pascucci Smith Iacovone Goldstein Hauser Smith Wells Tona
12: JUNE 2010
John Horgan: The End of Science
Attending: Ashner Fasciano Pascucci Goldstein Meltzer Charash Hauser Iacovone Kennedy Hauser Rosenfeld
11: MAY 2010
Mark Steyn: America Alone
Fareed Zakaria: The Post-American World
Attending: Ashner, Fasciano, Charash, Smith, Rosenfeld, Hauser, Iacovone, Tona, Pascucci, Mayrock
10: APRIL 2010
Robert Kennedy: Zen Gifts to Christians
Robert Kennedy: Zen Spirit, Christian Spirit
Attending: Ashner, Fasciano, Kennedy, Charash, Goldstein, Smith, Rosenfeld, Hauser, Iacovone, Tona, Pascucci, Mayrock
9: MARCH 2010
George Soros: New Paradigm for Financial Markets
Mark Fasciano: A Constructive Reading of George Soros
John Horgan: End of Science, Chapter 2
Attending: George Soros, Ashner, Fasciano, Kennedy, Smith, Mayrock, Pascucci, Tona, Rosenfeld, Goldstein, Iacovone, Charash, Hauser, Flexner, Foye, Rudolph, Puntillo, Tona
8: FEBRUARY 2010
Viktor Frankl: Man's Search for Meaning
Movie, Masterpiece Theatre: God on Trial
Primo Levi: The Drowned and the Saved
Movie: Crimes and Misdemeanors
Attending: Ashner, Fasciano, Kennedy, Smith, Mayrock, Pascucci, Tona, Rosenfeld, Goldstein, Iacovone, Charash
7: DECEMBER 2009
Justin Fox: The Myth of the Rational Markets
Attending: Ashner, Fasciano, Mayrock, Kennedy
6: NOVEMBER 2009
Elizabeth Strout: Abide with Me
Iris Murdoch: A Fairly Honorable Defeat
Attending: Ashner, Fasciano, Tona, Mayrock, Pascucci, Rosenfeld, Kennedy
5: SEPTEMBER 2009
Gleick: Genius: Life and Science of Richard Feynmann
Attending: Ashner, Fasciano, Tona, Mayrock, Pascucci, Rosenfeld, Kennedy, Smith, Rogel
4: JUNE 2009
Mathiassen: The Snow Leopard
Attending: Ashner, Fasciano, Tona, Mayrock, Pascucci, Rosenfeld, Kennedy, Smith, Knight
3: APRIL 2009
Thomas Hager: Alchemy of Air
Attending: Ashner, Fasciano, Tona, Mayrock, Pascucci, Rosenfeld, Kennedy, Smith
2: FEBRUARY 2009
William Poundstone: The Prisoners' Dilemma
Attending: Ashner, Smith, Fasciano, Pasc
1: JANUARY 2009
John LeCarre: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Attending: Ashner, Smith, Fasciano, Pascucci
