Jewish Identity?
Jewish identity was, is, and will continue to be a
topic that engages, preoccupies, disturbs, and even
haunts many of us. Our "Jewishness" determines for
better or worse who we are, what we are, and often
where we physically choose to be.
This month's selections
reflect two major influences that continually form,
shape, and fashion our Jewish psyche, since early in
the twentieth century, are the Eastern European shtetl
and ghetto cultures, and Israel - the land, and the
people.
Mazonet's New Selections:
•
"
A Place Can Make You Cry: Dispatches From an Anxious State,"
by Daniel Gordis. In 1998, Gordis, his wife and three
children left their home in Los Angeles and moved to Jerusalem..
This volume gathers e-mails of emails and private musings that
record Gordis's impressions of his new home up through the current
turmoil.
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• "How
I came Into My Inheritance" by Dorothy Gallagher. The boroughs of New York are fertile
ground for ethnic traditions to flourish, but bumpy territory for
the daughter of Russian immigrants.
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