Single Jewish Male Seeking Soul Mate

Author : Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781558618930

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Single Jewish Male Seeking Soul Mate by Letty Cottin Pogrebin Pdf

This novel “unflinchingly confronts the issue of Jewish continuity in a diverse and changing America” (Anne Roiphe, author and journalist). Feminist icon Letty Cottin Pogrebin’s second novel is the story of Zach Levy, the left-leaning son of Holocaust survivors who promises his mother on her deathbed that he will marry within the tribe and raise Jewish children. When he falls for Cleo Scott, an African American activist grappling with her own inherited trauma, he must reconcile his old vow to the family he loves with the present reality of the woman who may be his soul mate. A New York love story complicated by the legacies and modern tensions of Jewish American and African American history, Single Jewish Male Seeking Soul Mate explores what happens when the heart runs counter to politics, history, and the compelling weight of tradition. “A beautifully written and heartwarming masterpiece.” —Menachem Z. Rosensaft, founding chair of the International Network of Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors “Cleareyed, courageous.” —Kirkus Reviews

Author : Sarah Schulman
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781558619050

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The Cosmopolitans by Sarah Schulman Pdf

A “captivating, perceptive, and empathic novel of New York” told with “panache and mischievous ebullience” (Booklist, starred review). In this retelling of Balzac’s Parisian classic Cousin Bette, Sarah Shulman spins her revenge story in Mad Men–era New York City. Bette, a lonely spinster, has worked as a secretary at an ad agency for thirty years. Her only real friend is her apartment neighbor Earl, a black, gay actor with a miserable job in a meatpacking plant. Shamed and disowned by their families, both find refuge in New York and in their friendship. Everything changes when Hortense, Bette’s wealthy niece from Ohio, moves to the city to pursue her own acting career. Her arrival reminds Bette of her scandalous past and the estranged Midwestern family she left behind. When Hortense’s calculating ambitions cause a rift between Bette and Earl, Bette uses her connections in the television ad world to destroy those who have wronged her. Textured with the grit and gloss of midcentury Manhattan in the days before the Civil Rights and Feminist Movements, The Cosmopolitans “balance[s] the hopes of an entire era on the backs of a fragile relationship. . . . Jarring and beautiful, this is a modern classic” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

Author : Rabbi John Rosove
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781683367079

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Why Judaism Matters by Rabbi John Rosove Pdf

Presented in the form of letters from a rabbi to his sons, Why Judaism Matters is common sense guidance and a road map for a new generation of young men and women who find Jewish orthodoxy, tradition, issues, and beliefs impenetrable in 21st Century society. By intimately illustrating how the tenets of Judaism still apply in our modern world, Rabbi John Rosove gives heartfelt direction to the sons and daughters of reform Jews everywhere.

Author : Nancy Kalikow Maxwell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9780827617926

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Typically Jewish by Nancy Kalikow Maxwell Pdf

Is laughter essential to Jewish identity? Do Jews possess special radar for recognizing members of the tribe? Since Jews live longer and make love more often, why don't more people join the tribe? "More deli than deity" writer Nancy Kalikow Maxwell poses many such questions in eight chapters--"Worrying," "Kvelling," "Dying," "Noshing," "Laughing," "Detecting," "Dwelling," and "Joining"--exploring what it means to be "typically Jewish." While unearthing answers from rabbis, researchers, and her assembled Jury on Jewishness (Jewish friends she roped into conversation), she--and we--make a variety of discoveries. For example: Jews worry about continuity, even though Rabbi Mordechai of Lechovitz prohibited even that: "All worrying is forbidden, except to worry that one is worried." Kvell-worthy fact: About 75 percent of American Jews give to charity versus 63 percent of Americans as a whole. Since reciting Kaddish brought secular Jews to synagogue, the rabbis, aware of their captive audience, moved the prayer to the end of the service. Who's Jewish? About a quarter of Nobel Prize winners, an estimated 80 percent of comedians at one point, and the winner of Nazi Germany's Most Perfect Aryan Child Contest. Readers will enjoy learning about how Jews feel, think, act, love, and live. They'll also schmooze as they use the book's "Typically Jewish, Atypically Fun" discussion guide.

Author : Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : PSU:000043698608

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Deborah, Golda, and Me by Letty Cottin Pogrebin Pdf

As an adolescent, Pogrebin experienced agonizing rejection from Judaism because she was female, and at 15 she disassociated herself from organized Judaism. This book is about her journey 20 years later back to her roots, her decision to reconsider her withdrawal, and her struggle to reconcile feminism and her religion.

Author : Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374706432

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Three Daughters by Letty Cottin Pogrebin Pdf

An ebullient novel about family secrets and the triumph of sisterly love Driven by a legacy of lies, the shame of their own imperfections, and impending chaos in each of their well-ordered married lives, the three Wasserman daughters struggle with themselves and one another to break their parents' silence and understand their past. Shoshanna, control freak and world-class problem solver, stands on the brink of a Big Birthday in the shadow of the Evil Eye, trying to enjoy her happiness and to overcome her fears while also engineering a double reconciliation between her estranged sisters, and between Leah and their rabbi father. Leah, a brilliant English professor and unreconstructed leader of the left, eloquent and foul-mouthed, a crusading feminist and a passionately conflicted wife and mother, grapples with the meaning of abandonment and the unfamiliar demands of her own roiling needs. Rachel, who has papered over her losses with an athlete's discipline, a fact fetishist's sense of order, and a pragmatism bordering on self-sacrifice, watches her carefully constructed world fall apart and in the rubble discovers the woman she was meant to be. Three Daughters is a rich and complex story of three lives, their loves, and the web of relationships that either hold these lives together or hopelessly entangle them.

Author : Paul Mitchell
Publisher : Paul Mitchell
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Jews
ISBN : 0955732107

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Please God by You by Paul Mitchell Pdf

If you're Jewish, single and looking for love, you need this book! As the modern alternative to traditional Jewish matchmaking, Internet dating has now established itself worldwide as the accepted way for Jewish men and women to find friends, dates, and even soul mates within the faith. It seems that everyone knows someone who has found love online, and now, this essential guide reveals how you too can meet the Jew of your dreams through the Net. Whether you are novice or expert, you will discover how to make the most of your time online, with step-by-step advice on every aspect of the Internet dating process, from registration to the first date and beyond. Find out how to create an outstanding dating profile, as well as where to find inspiration. Learn the secrets to successful online communication, and discover the importance of the first contact phone call, plus how to handle awkward silences with ease ...and much more. Focusing on leading Jewish Internet dating site, JDate, Please God By You: The Essential Guide to Jewish Internet Dating is a light-hearted look at how you can give fate a helping hand.

Author : Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Publisher : Berkley Trade
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Aging
ISBN : 0425157938

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Getting Over Getting Older by Letty Cottin Pogrebin Pdf

"My feminist sisters . . . counsel women to welcome age", writes award-winning author and founder of "Ms". magazine Letty Cottin Pogrebin. "They discern nobility and power in the elder female. So do I, but I'm not in a hurry to "be" one. I hated turning 50, it's as simple as that". With a winning combination of insight and emotional honesty, she shatters myths about everything from menopause to monogamy--and offers women a new, mindful perspective on the middle chapters of their lives.

Author : Andrea Syrtash
Publisher : Rodale Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-27
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781605290850

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He's Just Not Your Type (And That's A Good Thing) by Andrea Syrtash Pdf

In He's Just Not Your Type (And That's a Good Thing), a relationship expert and dating columnist shares her counterintuitive approach to lasting love: encouraging women to date their "non-types." After years of dating, many women fall into a relationship rut. As serial daters, they are attracted to the same type of man time and again. Clearly, something's not working. But the problem is not that he's just not that into them—the reality is, he's just not their type. Relationship expert and life coach Andrea Syrtash hears the disbelief in her clients' voices when they admit that their "Mr. Right" relationship has again gone wrong. In He's Just Not Your Type, Syrtash challenges readers to date outside their comfort zones and poses hard-hitting questions: What if the kind of man they think will make them happy never will? What would happen if they dated someone they'd never considered dating? In each chapter, Syrtash shares stories of women who have found lasting happiness with their non-types (NTs) and provides exercises designed to help readers assess their big-picture goals and core values. In doing so, she shows women how to make better choices in dating so they are more likely to find true love.

Author : Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Children's literature, American
ISBN : PSU:000033393582

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Stories for Free Children by Letty Cottin Pogrebin Pdf

A collection of short stories, fables, and fairy tales emphasizing non-sexist, multi-racial, multi-cultural themes.

Author : Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 007050413X

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Who We Like, Why We Like Them, and What We Do with Them by Letty Cottin Pogrebin Pdf

Author : Nina Solomon
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781617753176

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The Love Book by Nina Solomon Pdf

An anti-romantic comedy about the misadventures of four women who meet on a singles' bike trip.

Author : Brontez Purnell
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781558614321

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Since I Laid My Burden Down by Brontez Purnell Pdf

An uninhibited portrait of growing up gay in 1980s Alabama: exploring art and sex with “more layered insight than the page count should allow” (Hanif Abdurraqib, MTV News). DeShawn lives a high, creative, and promiscuous life in San Francisco. But when he’s called back to his cramped Alabama hometown for his uncle’s funeral, he’s hit by flashbacks of handsome, doomed neighbors and sweltering Sunday services. Amidst prickly reminders of his childhood, DeShawn ponders family, church, and the men in his life, prompting the question: Who deserves love? A modern American classic, Since I Laid My Burden Down is a raw and searing look into the intersections of memory, Blackness, and queerness. “Performance artist Purnell beautifully captures a personality through introspection and memory in this slim novel . . . a compelling portrait of a particular disaffected kind of gay youth caught between religion, culture, and desire.” —Publishers Weekly “It’s a true novel, chaptered, and bound, that not only holds its own as queer literature, with its unapologetically misanthropic narrative, but also expands upon it.” —San Francisco Chronicle “An antidote to the rigamarole of gay lit.” —Mask Magazine “Slim yet potently realized, with a lot to ponder.” —The Bay Area Reporter “Since I Laid My Burden Down has a fearless (sometimes reckless) humor as Brontez Purnell interrogates what it means to be black, male, queer; a son, an uncle, a lover; Southern, punk, and human. An emotional tightrope walk of a book and an important American story rarely, if ever, told.” —Michelle Tea, author of Castle on the River Vistula

Author : Hannah Orenstein
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982175252

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Meant to Be Mine by Hannah Orenstein Pdf

"What if you knew exactly when you'd meet the love of your life? Edie Meyer knows. When her Grandma Gloria was a young woman, she had a vision of the exact day she would meet the love of her life--and then Grandpa Ray showed up. Since then, Gloria has accurately predicted the day every single member of the family has met their match. Edie's day is Friday, June 24, 2022. That morning, she boards an airplane to fly to her twin sister Rae's engagement. When a handsome stranger takes a seat in her row, she knows her whole life is about to change. But fate is more complicated than it seems, and her perfect guy may not be so perfect for her after all. After tragedy and a shocking revelation rock Edie's careful world, she has to ask which is more important: fate or love?"--

Author : Abraham Verghese
Publisher : Random House India
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788184001754

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Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese Pdf

Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance and bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles—and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.