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1998
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ongoing debate. She interviewed
34 rabbis and scholars in Israel,
the United States and England,
and provides their comments to
her questions, in their own always
passionate words. She spoke to
CONVERSAT IONS,
them not simply as a reporter,
CONCLUSIONS
but as a woman with much at
NOT
stake in their answers.
Merylliyma la
"It's one thing to talk about
who is a Jew. It's quite another thing
to look into my Jewish face and tell
me I'm not a Jew. No one did it with-
SAN DEE BRAWARSKY
out breaking my heart or breaking
Special to The Jewish News
(248) 358-0344
daughter of a Jewish
father and Christian
mother. Her parents
divorced when she and her brother
were young, and her father remar-
ried a Jewish woman with three
kids; her father and his new wife
— who didn't have a Jewish
divorce — had a child together.
Her blended family, she says, repre-
sents "most of the permutations of
heredity that face American Jews
now."
Although Hyman grew up
thinking of herself as Jewish,
according to Orthodox and
Conservative standards she is not.
She points out that amono- all of
b one
her siblings, she is the only
whose potential children would not
be considered Jewish, no matter
whom she married.
"Who Is A Jew?,' the puzzler
central to my life and periodically
to Israeli politics, now threatens to
break the Jewish people apart,"
Hyman writes in Who Is" A Jew?:
Conversations, Not Conclusions
(Jewish Lights; $23.95), a timely
and thoughtful complement to the
Sandee Brawarsky is a New York-
based freelance book critic.
EISiC5
Faye Kellerman's
latest novel is a
departure for the
successful author
of the popular
Peter Decker-Ring
Lazarus series.
M
oon Music (William
Morrow & Co.;
$25), Faye
Kellerman's newest
novel, will come as a complete
surprise to those of her fans