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English
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The story of two fathers and two sons and the pressures on all of them to pursue the religion they share in the way that is best suited to each. And as the boys grow into young men, they discover in the other a lost spiritual brother, and a link to an unexplored world that neither had ever considered before. In effect, they exchange places, and find the peace that neither will ever retreat from again.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
David Lurie learns that all beginnings are hard. He must fight for his place against the bullies in his Depression-shadowed Bronx neighborhood and his own frail health. As a young man, he must start anew and define his own path of personal belief that diverges sharply with his devout father and everything he has been taught.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1990
Edition
1st trade ed.
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In the continuation of one of Potok's best-known books, we find Lev called back to Brooklyn from France--and once again forced to make a choice between the sacred and the worldly. Lev comes to realize that his decision will affect not only the two worlds he inhabits, but also the sanctitiy of his family and, most importantly, the future of his young son.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
xv, 249 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Follows the experiences and conflicting ideologies of the Jewish Slepak family, focusing on the story of Solomon, who survived the purges of the 1930s in the Soviet Union, maintaining his loyalty to the Communist party, and of his son, Volodya, who spent five years in Siberia as punishment for his dissent.
10) I am the clay
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1992
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
211 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Author
Publisher
Banot Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
viii, 393 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The award-winning author of 'Rashi's Daughters,' Maggie Anton, has written a wholly transformative novel that takes characters inspired by Chaim Potok and ages them into young adults in Brooklyn in the 1950s, a time of Elvis & Marilyn, communist scares & polio vaccines, Jewish migration & American integration. When Hannah Eisin, a successful journalist, interviews Rabbi Nathan Mandel, a controversial Talmud professor, she persuades him to teach her...
15) The chosen
Publisher
Distributed by Hen's Tooth Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of two teenage boys who become best friends despite huge differences in their upbringing. Danny is the son of an orthodox Hasidic Rabbi. Reuven comes from a progressive Jewish family whose father stands at the forefront of the battle for Israeli statehood. Danny's every moment is devoted to religious study, while Reuven plays jazz piano and is intensely interested in the changing world around him. Their family differences soon force both...
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
©1996
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 249 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The experience of growing up Jewish in America has produced some of the very best works of fiction and nonfiction ever written. Now, Growing Up Jewish brings together twenty-five accounts by some of our most popular and admired authors as well as newer and lesser-known voices. These twenty-five stories of childhood and adolescence explore issues of Jewish identity, language, generational differences, and family life.
But above all, they touch on...
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