Not Your Bubbe Book Club Discussion of Always Carry Salt by Samantha Ellis

Not Your Bubbe Book Club Hosts Discussion of Always Carry Salt: A Memoir of Preserving Language and Culture by Samantha Ellis

Venue: The Boston Synagogue

Date: November 9, 2026 at 7:00 PM (Eastern Time)

Join us for a lively discussion of Always Carry Salt at The Boston Synagogue. Let's dive into the twists and turns of this captivating story together. Don't miss out on the chance to share your thoughts and connect with fellow book lovers. You do not want to miss this.

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“In Always Car­ry Salt, Saman­tha Ellis crafts an urgent and ten­der explo­ration of cul­tur­al extinc­tion, mater­nal inher­i­tance, and the impos­si­ble task of pre­serv­ing what his­to­ry threat­ens to erase. Ellis is the daugh­ter of Jew­ish refugees who fled Iraq — her father in 1951, a decade after the Farhud, and her moth­er in 1971. Ellis grew up in Lon­don sur­round­ed by the dis­tinct sounds of Judeo-Iraqi Ara­bic, a lan­guage now tee­ter­ing on the edge of obliv­ion.”

Read more here: https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/always-carry-salt-a-memoir-of-preserving-language-and-culture