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A Guide To Conversion,
Seasons Of Captivity,
And Ten Little Rabbis
ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM ASSOCIATE EDITOR
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MERCURY
About Books
Finally, each decides to "do of Intimate Relationships
hoshana Stubin became in-
terested in Judaism be- something special in our very (North Star Publications).
A foreword advises readers the
cause of anti-Semitism. own way!" One becomes a taxi
My father is Jewish; his driver, another becomes a baker, book is not for anyone "looking
family came to America in the a third finds work as a tailor. In for a warm, cuddly book on rela-
1840s to the 1860s and has al- the end, they all reunite under tionship" or those who want to
most completely assimilated. the mezuzah tree and return "live only in stardust." Instead,
Knowing and caring little about home, singing as they sail on the authors say, their work is
Judaism, he married my mother, their "shofar boat": "The years aimed at "couples who have cho-
a devout Catholic. As he had flew by so fast! All things in sen relationship as their pathway
nothing religiously to pass on to the world grow old in time, yet to increased consciousness."
Dancing in the Dark
his children, he agreed to her
profiles
various cases
desire to raise us as Catholics.
in which the authors
I encountered frequent anti-
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consider the many
,
Semitic slurs in parochial
sides of the human per-
school from other children who
sonality: from the part
knew my father was a Jew,
that needs to be loved
and this made me very defen-
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to that part that has no
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sive, as well as curious to know
NeR e!
interest in being in a
more about Judaism.
Say "Shalom!"
relationship.
Susan Weisberger's con-
to
Mrs. Moseley is a
The Ten Little Rabbis
version to Judaism followed
and join them
graduate
of Wayne
the 1985 hijacking of a TWA
as they sail away
State University and
in their giant shofar
jet:
to the land of
former host of the TV
When I heard the flight at-
the Mezuzah Tree:
show "No-Nonsense
Enjoy their
tendant's account of sorting
adventures as
Exercise."
She and her
Jewish-sounding names on
each one does a Mitzvah,
husband have a private
each in his very own way!
passports from the others, I
counseling practice
found myself asking where I
based in New Mexico.
would be in that situation. I
author
sraeli
decided I wanted to be count-
Aharon Appelfeld's
ed with my husband and son
latest novel, Kate-
as a Jew.
rina (Norton), tells
These women, and others
the
story of a woman
who chose to convert to Ju-
reflecting on her long
daism, are featured in the new
life.
Conversion to Judaism: A
Katerina left her
Guidebook (Jason Aronson COPYRIGHT 1994 DAVID SOKOLOFF, CONTEMPORARY DESIGNS
home
when she was a
Inc.) by Lawrence Epstein.
Chapters focus on why people the goodness of a mitzvah will teen, then found work as a ser-
vant with a Jewish family. After
convert to Judaism, conversion last."
The rabbis also are featured in initially regarding the family
to Judaism in Jewish thought
and history, and the role of fam- The Ten Little Rabbis Celebrate strange, she comes to love them.
During an outbreak of anti-
Chanukah.
ily in the conversion process.
Semitism,
the parents are killed
Author
David
Sokoloff
is
a
na-
The book also offers a guide to
conversion, with a brief overview tive of Kansas City, where he and Katerina, bringing their two
of Jewish history and Jewish worked for Hallmark Cards be- boys with her, flees to the coun-
texts, and a description of the hol- fore moving to Chicago in search tryside. The boys are later taken
of a larger, more observant Jew- away from Katerina, but she
idays and daily life.
The final third of Conversion ish community. Mr. Sokoloff also clings to her new Jewish beliefs.
Another new novel with roots
to Judaism is dedicated to life af- teaches Jewish values through
ter conversion: how to get in- his act "Mense the Clown," which in the Holocaust is The Man
Who Was Late
volved in Jewish life and pick a he performs at
(Ballantine) by
synagogue, as well as informa- kosher restaurants
Louis Begley.
in
Chicago.
tion about popular culture and
The Man Who
ormer Detroi-
education for children.
Was
Late tells the
Naomi
ter
ne little, two little, three lit-
story of Ben, a sur-
Dworkis Mose-
tle rabbis can be found in
vivor who rebuilds
ley and her
the new The Ten Little
his life as a financier
Rabbis (Contemporary husband, Douglas
in the United
Designs) by artist David Sokoloff. Moseley, consider the
States. He is a man
The children's book tells the complex relation-
of control whose
story of "ten little rabbis who did ships between men
every move is
fantastic things." In addition to and women, mother
threatened
by the
and
son,
father
and
studying Torah and davening
possibility of pro-
every day, they sail across the sea daughter in Danc-
found feeling and
and discover a "mezuzah tree" ing in the Dark:
unchained emotion.
The Shadow Side Aharon Appelf eld
where they eat bagels and lox.
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