Cover of Lovesong: Becoming a Jew

Lovesong: Becoming a Jew

The author chroicles his earliest encounters with faith in the figure of his father, a black Methodist minister, his earliest recollections of the lure of Judaism, the South before the Civil Rights movement, and his conversion to Judaism.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 248 pages

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