Human Rights Book Clubs

Join the Wassmuth Center's Human Rights Book Clubs

Times of rapid change, complexity, and division require space and time for people to gather around a shared human rights-themed book and the opportunity to dive deeply into important topics through reading, discussion, and learning.

Generations for Justice Book Club
meets on the second Tuesday of each month from
6:30 - 8:00 PM

Hope & Humanity Book Club
meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month from
12:00 - 1:00 PM and 6:30 - 8:00 PM

Generations for Justice Book Club

Second Tuesday of each month

Generations for Justice is an intergenerational book club that welcomes community members of all ages to gather on the second Tuesday of each month at 6:30 PM.

Upcoming Selection:

September 9: Finding Eve: Raising a Transgender Teen in Idaho by Michael and Angie Devitt
October 14: Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder
November 11: The Collectors: Stories

Generations for Justice Book Club Selections

Hope & Humanity Book Club

Fourth Tuesday of each month

The Hope & Humanity Book Club is a welcoming space for lively conversations about books that explore human rights across all genres—stories that spark empathy, deepen understanding, and inspire meaningful action.

We gather on the fourth Tuesday of each month at both 12:00 PM and 6:30 PM.

Our Fall Series (click the title for a link to purchase):

August 26: Eva Schloss’ After Auschwitz
September 23: Pinchas Gutter’s Memories in Focus
October 28: Aaron Elster’s I Still See Her Haunting Eyes
November 25: Anita Wallfisch’s Inherit the Truth

This fall, we are reading memoirs from the Holocaust survivors we have access to in our Dimensions and Testimony room. This will be a unique experience to learn more about these inspiring stories. We hope you will plan to join us for one or all in the series. When registering, you’ll be able to choose which dates you’d like to attend.

Titles are linked to online sources to purchase the books, if needed.

As a bonus, we’d like to invite you to stay after the discussion to interact with the stories in our Dimensions in Testimony experience. You’ll be able to hear directly from each author about their lives, and how they’ve held onto hope.

Hope & Humanity Book Club Selections

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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”

-JAMES BALDWIN, AMERICAN WRITER