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Half/Life

Jew-ish Tales from Interfaith Homes

Laurel Snyder

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English
Soft Skull Press
23 March 2006
Written by authors born into the so-called “dilemma of intermarriage,"" the stories in Half/Life explore the experience of being raised in a half-Jewish home. Though each essay is distinct, and the experiences are vastly different, each describes growing up without a streamlined identity, unsure of community or religious direction. From Jenny Traig, whose experiences led her to extreme devotion in the form of religious-obsessive compulsion (scrupulosity) to Thisbe Nissen, who finally felt Jewish after discovering a rosary in her boyfriend's sock drawer, these authors examine the complicated relationships they felt with the Jewish community and the world at large. By turns tragic and funny, religious and heartbreaking, angry and surprisingly familiar, Half/Life represents the altogether diverse memories and reflections of a handful of men and women who have spent a lifetime grappling with how to define themselves, or not. Resulting from that struggle is a complex exploration, and some truly brilliant prose.
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Imprint:   Soft Skull Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 254mm,  Width: 177mm,  Spine: 16mm
Weight:   253g
ISBN:   9781933368245
ISBN 10:   1933368241
Pages:   200
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Laurel Snyder is the author of six novels for children, two books of poems, and the editor of an anthology of nonfiction, Half/Life- Jewish tales from Interfaith Homes. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a former Michener-Engle Fellow, Laurel has published work in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, the Utne Reader, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Revealer, Salon, The Iowa Review, American Letters and Commentary, and elsewhere. She is an occasional commentator for NPR's ""All Things Considered,"" and she teaches in the MFAC program at Hamline University, and also in the creative writing department at Emory University. A Baltimore native, Laurel now lives in Atlanta (in Ormewood Park), with her family. Which is really the best part.

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