The Rabbi
New York : Ballantine Books, 1987.
Format: Book
Edition: First Ballantine books edition.
Description: 435 pages ; 18 cm
He was a young American rabbi. She was his beautiful Christian wife. Together they tried to forge a life . . .
"This big, ambitious novel comes as close to matters of faith and life as any book that has appeared. . . . Excellent."-- New York Post
First and foremost, Michael Kind was a man--a courageous man with strong ideals and feelings, a family man devoted to his two children, a passionate man deeply in love with his wife Leslie. He'd already become a rabbi when he met Leslie, a minister's daughter. She fell in love with Michael and converted to Judaism to marry him.
This is their story, a sweeping drama of love and identity, of compassion and cruelty, a searing tale of one man and one woman who must learn to cope with the complications of an unorthodox life in a world that will not accept them, in a world where rabbis and non-Jews do not fall in love--let alone marry . . .
"A human and enlightening portrait of a rabbi as a man, called upon constantly to be something more than a man: of a rabbi as a husband and father with the weakness and problems of other men . . . A rewarding reading experience."-- Los Angeles Times
"This big, ambitious novel comes as close to matters of faith and life as any book that has appeared. . . . Excellent."-- New York Post
First and foremost, Michael Kind was a man--a courageous man with strong ideals and feelings, a family man devoted to his two children, a passionate man deeply in love with his wife Leslie. He'd already become a rabbi when he met Leslie, a minister's daughter. She fell in love with Michael and converted to Judaism to marry him.
This is their story, a sweeping drama of love and identity, of compassion and cruelty, a searing tale of one man and one woman who must learn to cope with the complications of an unorthodox life in a world that will not accept them, in a world where rabbis and non-Jews do not fall in love--let alone marry . . .
"A human and enlightening portrait of a rabbi as a man, called upon constantly to be something more than a man: of a rabbi as a husband and father with the weakness and problems of other men . . . A rewarding reading experience."-- Los Angeles Times
ISBN:
0449214540
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Gordon | Northeast Indoors | Fiction | In |
Reprint. Originally published: New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965.