So, who doesn’t really like to go shopping? Join the Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation this summer as we read about the shopping experience and the Jewish merchants who changed retail forever. First up on July 9 is “A Girl Named Carrie” by Jerrie Marcus Smith, a biography of Carrie Marcus Neiman, co-founder, in 1907, of the Neiman Marcus department store in Dallas, Texas. Carrie played an integral role in the store’s success, despite having three strikes against her: she was a woman, she was Jewish, and (after her husband’s illicit relationship with a second-floor saleswoman) she was divorced. Yet with impeccable taste and exemplary manners, she “was nobody’s pushover.”
We meet simultaneously in-person at the Bethlehem Public Library and on Zoom. For more information, visit our website at https://www.bethlehemsynagogue.org/books-2025