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The Half Jewish Book
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Author : Daniel Klein
language : en
Publisher: Villard Books
Release Date : 2000-09-19
The Half Jewish Book written by Daniel Klein and has been published by Villard Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-09-19 with Religion categories.
It's happening fast: The population of half-Jews in America is well on its way to surpassing the population of full Jews. And with this population shift has come a revolutionary transformation of what it means to be half-Jewish. Sure, some people say that you are either Jewish or not, that there's nothing in between--but the authors emphatically disagree. They say half-Jews are a unique subculture of people who draw from both sides of their heritage and synthesize their cultural halves into a remarkable new identity. The Half-Jewish Book celebrates this unique identity that until now has been ignored, maligned, and misunderstood. There's half-Jewish humor. Half-Jewish/half-Catholic Bill Maher: "I come from a mixed religious background--when I went to confession, I brought a lawyer with me." And there's half-Jewish beauty--Gwyneth Paltrow, Joan Collins, and Jane Seymour, just for starters. There are half-Jewish writers (Proust, Salinger), and half-Jewish characters in fiction by authors ranging from Philip Roth to Salman Rushdie. There's even that half-Jewish cartoon phenomenon Tommy Pickles, in Rugrats. There are half-Jewish politicians--Fiorello La Guar-dia, Barry Goldwater, Dianne Feinstein. And there are the extraordinary number of people, like General Wesley Clark, who discovered as adults that they were half-Jewish and then embraced their newfound double heritage. This book includes an eye-opening essay on half-Jewish identity and looks into the often misunderstood history of half-Jews in the Holocaust. There are original interviews with half-Jews, as well as holiday cards and menus, poetry and song lyrics, and paintings and photographs. Intelligent, exuberant, entertaining, and thought-provoking, The Half-Jewish Book is a fascinating celebration of a cultural mix that is far greater than the sum of its parts. The premise of The Half-Jewish Book is simple if somewhat controversial: Being half-Jewish is a quality unto itself, sui generis. Half-Jewishness is a cultural, intellectual, and aesthetic mix that is, in a variety of ways, greater than the sum of its parts. To take this position--and to revel in the celebration that follows from it--we stand in clear opposition to those who insist: "You are either Jewish or you are not; there's nothing in between." And we compound this blasphemy by suggesting that there is something unique, remarkable, and downright dazzling about the half-Jewish mind and the half-Jewish face, about the art and wit created by half-Jewish sensibilities, and in the ethical, literary, and political ideas produced from the half-Jewish perspective. Enough already about the "half-Jewish problem" as the tragic product of intermarriage. It is time to explore the unique and fascinating world of the half-Jew. --from the Introduction From the Hardcover edition.
The Half Jewish Book
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Author : Daniel M. Klein
language : en
Publisher: Villard Books
Release Date : 2000
The Half Jewish Book written by Daniel M. Klein and has been published by Villard Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Religion categories.
Studies the growing population of half-Jewish individuals in America, exploring the subculture's unique identity, attributes, and physical characteristics, and profiles half-Jewish Hollywood celebrities.
Half Jew Searching For Identity
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Author : D. M. Miller
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-02
Half Jew Searching For Identity written by D. M. Miller and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02 with categories.
What is a Half-Jew? Neither this nor that. Practically synonymous with confusion, Half-Jew is a term for people stuck in no-man's land, not quite fitting in with Gentiles nor universally accepted as Jews. Some say there is no such thing, denying many their legitimate heritage and innate pull toward the same culture, ancestry and religious equivalence as those with Jewish matrilineage. Those born of a Jewish father and non-Jewish mother are often lost, searching for a true identity. D.M. Miller makes a compelling case to prove the doubters wrong. In analyzing religious arguments, medical and genetic studies, history and ancestry, this intimate part-memoir tells the personal story of one woman determined to eradicate the stigma, unravel the misunderstandings and come to terms with what identity is or isn't through her unique perspective as a Half-Jew.
The Half Jew
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Author : Robert Beauvais
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
The Half Jew written by Robert Beauvais and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Fiction categories.
The Half Jew And The Synagogue
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Author : Evelyn Wilcock
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
The Half Jew And The Synagogue written by Evelyn Wilcock and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Judaism categories.
Half Jew
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Author : Susan Jacoby
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2016-03-15
Half Jew written by Susan Jacoby and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Since childhood, Susan Jacoby, the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of American Unreason, was sure that her father was keeping a secret. At age twenty, just before beginning her writing career as a reporter for the Washington Post, she learned the truth: Robert Jacoby, a Catholic convert with a Catholic wife, was also a Jew. In Half-Jew, Jacoby grapples with the hidden identity cloaked by the persona of a successful accountant and member of St. Thomas Aquinas Church in East Lansing, Michigan—and with the secrets and lies that had marked her family’s history for three generations on two continents. Beginning in 1849 when her great-grandfather arrived in America as a political refugee, Jacoby traces her lineage through the lives of her great-uncle Harold, the distinguished astronomer whose map of the constellations is etched on the ceiling of Grand Central Terminal; her uncle, the bridge champion Oswald Jacoby, her aunt Edith, also a Catholic convert and eventually a reformer within the church; and, of course her father himself. At the core of story is the psychic damage that accrues across generations when people conceal their true ethnic and religious origins. Featuring a new afterword, Half-Jew is a meticulously researched, emotionally poignant examination of the dark legacy of European and American anti-Semitism as well as a tender-hearted account of a daughter coming to understand her father, herself, and her family’s true legacy.
Half Life
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Author : Laurel Snyder
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2006-03-23
Half Life written by Laurel Snyder and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03-23 with Religion categories.
Written by authors born into the so-called “dilemma of intermarriage,” the stories in Half/Life explore the experience of being raised in a half-Jewish home. Though each essay is distinct, and the experiences are vastly different, each describes growing up without a streamlined identity, unsure of community or religious direction. From Jenny Traig, whose experiences led her to extreme devotion in the form of religious-obsessive compulsion (scrupulosity) to Thisbe Nissen, who finally felt Jewish after discovering a rosary in her boyfriend’s sock drawer, these authors examine the complicated relationships they felt with the Jewish community and the world at large. By turns tragic and funny, religious and heartbreaking, angry and surprisingly familiar, Half/Life represents the altogether diverse memories and reflections of a handful of men and women who have spent a lifetime grappling with how to define themselves, or not. Resulting from that struggle is a complex exploration, and some truly brilliant prose.
The Jewolic
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Author : Ritch Gaiti
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2013-10
The Jewolic written by Ritch Gaiti and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10 with Humor categories.
Conundrums of a Half-Jew – a humorous romp through religious ambivalence. Polish/Jewish mom; Italian/Catholic dad. I was a religious mutt — a matzo brie pizza; a blintz marinara; a bagel and lox trapped inside a spaghetti and meatballs body. I needed an identity.I could have become: a) A Jew, invoking the very popular, and all-inclusive, 'if your mother is a Jew' rule; b) A Catholic, ignoring the above-mentioned rule; or, c) A half Jew/half Cath, Jewolic, straddling both religions, favoring the one that was most advantageous at the time.I straddled for most of my youth. I was a Jew Catholic, or Cath Jew, or half and half, or half-Cath, or half-Jew, or Jewolic, depending upon whom I was trying to impress or what I was attempting to avoid. My Gram tried to convince me that I was a Jew by virtue of the 'mother of the Jew rule'. I remained solidly unconvinced and ambivalent. “But why isn't the rule: if your father was Catholic, you are too?” I always challenged the 'mother of the Jew rule' when I had an urgent need to irk. “Because you are a Jew,” she said, a cigarette dangled from her lips and smoke meandered up through her glasses.“How can you be so sure?”“Because, you are a schmuck and only Jews can be schmucks.” She had embroidered the very same saying onto a pillow, which she threatened to give to me for my birthday. She opened the clasp on her purse and snapped it shut, signaling the official end of the conversation. That was my conundrum. This is my story.
The Teller In The Tale
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Author : Elizabeth Heyn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
The Teller In The Tale written by Elizabeth Heyn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Authors, American categories.
Daniel Half Human
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Author : David Chotjewitz
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2004-10-12
Daniel Half Human written by David Chotjewitz and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-12 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
In 1933 Germany, Daniel Kraushaar is horrified to discover that his mother is Jewish. Daniel realizes he is half-Jewish--and half-human in Aryan eyes. Daniel keeps this secret to himself. But when his friends join the Hitler Youth, it carries fateful consequences for Daniel's family.