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several minutes until the moderator
moves on to another questioner.
Schiffman, who has a master's
degree in social anthropology from
Oxford, describes herself as a searcher.
She calls her book earnest, but it's also
self-deprecating.
As she writes about her desire to
cook more:
"My husband is a man of wisdom.
he author of the recent
memoir Generation J
(HarperSanFrancisco; $18)
is a poster adult for the
unaffiliated Jew.
Lisa Schiffman grew up in a non-
Jewish environment that, as
she describes it, came directly
out of an early Philip Roth
novel. She suffered from a seri-
ous case of Christmas envy and
didn't have a Jewish education
or a bat mitzvah.
Now 35 and living in
California's Bay Area, she's
intermarried and not embar-
rassed about it, but she is on a
spiritual quest to find a Jewish
identity.
She chronicles her journey
in Generation J, a frank look at
Schiffman's attempt to connect
with a religion that she feels
drawn to even though she was-
n't raised in it. That journey
takes her to a Judaism and psy-
chology conference, a Buddhist
monastery and two different
Jewish ritual baths.
"I couldn't ignore it any-
more. It shouted at me," she
said recently in an interview
about her need to explore her
Lisa Schiffinan: "We were a generation of Jews
Judaism.
who grew up with television, with Barbie, •
Judging by the way the
with rhinoplasty as a way of life. Assimilation
phone boards light up when
wasn't something we strove for; it was the
she appears on radio call-in
condition into which we were born."
shows, Schiffman is not alone.
As she puts it in her book,
He knew better than to mention that
"We were a generation of Jews who
I cook dinner once a month. Or that
grew up with television, with Barbie,
cooking,
to me, means buying tomato
with rhinoplasty as a way of life.
b,
sauce and heating it up at home."
Assimilation wasn't something we
Despite its occasional humor, the
strove for; it was the condition into
book is also infused with a certain
which we were born."
amount of exclusionary anger.
At a recent reading and discussion
While Schiffman was growing up
of her book in New York, Schiffman is
on
Long Island, her only affiliation
patient with — and a bit dumbfound-
with Judaism was a negative one:
ed at — a female member of the audi-
identification with the Holocaust. In
ence who criticizes her book and her
her book, she describes the image of
reading for being too "West Coast"
Jewish women in concentration camps
and not serious enough about
that flashes across her mind while she
Judaism.
walks on the tiled floor toward a
She seems to Want to reach a reso-
mikva.
lution and allows the critic to rant for