Roots Schmoots
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Roots Schmoots

Journeys Among Jews

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Roots Schmoots

Journeys Among Jews

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From a Booker Prize-winning author, an "informed and witty" travelogue exploring America, Israel, Lithuania, and the nature of Jewish identity ( Publishers Weekly ). Howard Jacobson had been hoping to make a journey to Lithuania to search for his Jewish roots. So when the BBC offered to send him around the globe to report on a variety of Jewish communities, he accepted. The trip he recounts in this memoir takes him to New York City, where tension simmers between Jews and African Americans; to California, where he visits a gay synagogue; to Israel, where he encounters the spectrum of Jewishness from Orthodox right-wing hardliners to tolerant, peace-loving kibbutzniks. And ultimately, to Lithuania, the land of his forefathers, where he discovers that antisemitism still lurks. "A lively, irreverent but ultimately serious account of a British Jew's search for his roots." —Elizabeth Benedict, The New York Times "Profound and moving." — Publishers Weekly

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Publisher
ABRAMS Press
Year
1995
ISBN
9781468305791
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Religious Biographies

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. By the Same Author
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. One: ROOTS SCHMOOTS
  7. Two: BECALMED BUT KOSHER
  8. Three: PEOPLE WHO NEED PEOPLE
  9. Four: A LITTLE BIT CUCKOO
  10. Five: A JEW HOLIDAY IN HYMIETOWN
  11. Six: CRÊPE-HANGING
  12. Seven: HIGH SOCIETY
  13. Eight: SENSELESS BEAUTY
  14. Nine: WE’RE HERE, WE’RE QUEER, WE’RE NOT GOING SHOPPING
  15. Ten: WHO GOD, WHICH GOD, WHERE GOD
  16. Eleven: REPULSION
  17. Twelve: ON THE TRAIL OF TEARS
  18. Thirteen: NOT ISRAEL PROPER
  19. Fourteen: GONNA BE GREAT, OR GONNA BE BLOODY
  20. Fifteen: THE CURSE IS COME UPON US
  21. Sixteen: CLOAK AND DAGGER
  22. Seventeen: MESHUGGENERS
  23. Eighteen: HOME FROM HOME
  24. Nineteen: FROZEN BY THE CHOSEN
  25. Twenty: TLC
  26. Twenty-one: GOING DOWN
  27. Twenty-two: THE LITVAK TOY-BOY
  28. Twenty-three: A PLAY ON A CEMETERY
  29. Twenty-four: GOING JEW
  30. Afterword