Student Wendy Goldberg spends a year in Jerusalem questioning the lives of American Jews who βreturn" both to Israel itself and to traditional religious practices. Are they sincere? Are they happier? The unexpected answers and her experiences (a bus bombing, a funeral, an unexpected suicide, a love
Questioning Return
β Scribed by Kissileff, Beth
- Book ID
- 109834709
- Publisher
- Mandel Vilar Press
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 567 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781942134244
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Student Wendy Goldberg spends a year in Jerusalem questioning the lives of American Jews who βreturn" both to Israel itself and to traditional religious practices. Are they sincere? Are they happier? The unexpected answers and her experiences (a bus bombing, a funeral, an unexpected suicide, a love affair, a law suit),lead her to reconsider her own true identity.
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A Question of Return is a novel that spans generations and continents. Opening in Toronto,1985, the story begins with Γ©migrΓ© poet Artyom Laukhin, who has been working to transform his father Pavel's notebook into a publishable literary journal. Artyom's father was a popular Soviet novelist in 1930s