Asher Lev is a gifted loner, the artist who painted the sensational Brooklyn Crucifixion. Into it he poured all the anguish and torment a Jew can feel when torn between the faith of his fathers and the calling of his art. Here Asher Lev plunges back into his childhood and recounts the story of love and conflict which dragged him to this crossroads.
A baseball game between Jewish schools is the catalyst that starts a bitter rivalry between two boys and their fathers.
For Davita Chandal, growing up in the New York of the 1930s and '40s is an experience of joy and sadness. Her loving parents, both fervent radicals, fill her with the fiercely bright hope of a new and better world. But as the deprivations of war and depression take a ruthless toll, Davita unexpectedly turns to the Jewish faith that her mother had long ago abandoned, finding there both a solace for her questioning inner pain and a test of her budding spirit of independence.
Growing up as a Jew in New York during the Great Depression and World War II.l_
Handboek met ideeën, mogelijkheden en adviezen voor ernstig of langdurig zieken om de kwaliteit van hun leven te behouden of te verbeteren.
Verhalen over Amerikaanse joden.