The Donigers of Great Neck : a mythologized memoir /
This is the story of the contrasting Judaisms that Wendy Doniger's two parents brought from their very different homes in Europe during World War I, of their paths to a shared but sharply bifurcated life in America during World War II, her father a publisher, her mother a political activist and...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Waltham, Massachusetts :
Brandeis University Press,
[2019]
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| Summary: | This is the story of the contrasting Judaisms that Wendy Doniger's two parents brought from their very different homes in Europe during World War I, of their paths to a shared but sharply bifurcated life in America during World War II, her father a publisher, her mother a political activist and of the ways in which their attitudes to religion in general, and Judaism in particular, influenced the author's development as a Jewish woman and a scholar of religion. |
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| Item Description: | "The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities at Brandeis University." |
| Physical Description: | 172 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781512603514 1512603511 9781512603521 151260352X |