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1 online resource (1 audio file (480 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Theodore Ross, Steve Blane. |
| Summary |
What makes someone Jewish? Theodore Ross was nine years old when he moved with his mother from New York City to the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Once there, his mother decided, for both personal and spiritual reasons, to have her family pretend not to be Jewish. He went to an Episcopal school, where he studied the New Testament, sang in the choir, and even took Communion. Later, as an adult, he wondered: Am I still Jewish? Seeking an answer, Ross traveled around the country and to Israel, visiting a wide variety of Jewish communities. From "Crypto-Jews" in New Mexico and secluded ultra-devout Orthodox towns in upstate New York to a rare Classical Reform congregation in Kansas City, Ross tries to understand himself by experiencing the diversity of Judaism. Quirky and self-aware, introspective and impassioned, Am I a Jew? is a story about the universal struggle to define a relationship (or lack thereof) with religion. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Jews -- Identity.
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Crypto-Jews -- United States.
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Jewish Christians -- United States.
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Jews -- Return to Orthodox Judaism.
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Jews -- United States -- Interviews.
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Ross, Theodore, 1973-
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Ross, Theodore.
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Blane, Steve.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781469085715 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1469085712 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11399334 |
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