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Red Heifer : A Novel by Leo Haber (2001, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSyracuse University Press
ISBN-100815606923
ISBN-139780815606925
eBay Product ID (ePID)1831128
Product Key Features
Book TitleRed Heifer : a Novel
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2001
TopicSagas, Historical, Jewish
GenreFiction
AuthorLeo Haber
Book SeriesNew York City Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight11.7 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN00-047097
Dewey Edition21
TitleLeadingThe
ReviewsAn exciting story. . . . The novel is a literary rarity: both a readable and a memorable work of art., Move over Henry Roth. With Leo Haber's poignant, page-turning new novel, The Red Heifer, we may very well have the Call It Sleep of the 21st century. . . . Mr. Haber's storyline is enriched by scenes that echo or recast memorable biblical episodes; the knowing reader marvels at the author's sleight of hand. . . . [The book] is an entire miniature civilization limned with compassion, perception, and wit.
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisA novel of New York's Lower East Side seen through the eyes of a first-generation Jewish-American boy growing up fast amid mobsters and rabbis in the 1930s-1950s. The growing boy struggles with love and death amid poverty, crime, and fervent religion and politics., The main character of Leo Haber's debut novel grows to sexual and social awareness amid old-world Yiddish-speaking rabbis, new-world mobsters, Jewish non-believers, musicians, ballplayers, and new waves of immigrants. The novel teems with unforgettable characters who grapple with traditional values and the cultural enticements of their new goldene medine (new land). The problem of Jewish survival in a free society informs every aspect of the novel, with the ancient law of the red heifer serving as the central metaphor., Swirling in the melting pot of Manhattan's Lower East Side, the eldest son of religious, Yiddish-speaking parents narrates The Red Heifer from the 1930s, when he is five, through the early 1950s. American-born, he grows to sexual and social awareness amid old-world rabbis, new-world mobsters, Jewish atheists, musicians, and new waves of immigrants. The growing boy struggles with love and death amid poverty, crime, and fervent religion and politics. He passionately evokes the largely vanished working-class Jewish Lower East Side as an unromantic, sometimes violent place, in which characters strive to observe pious duties, make money, and assimilate. Steeped in Jewish-American history, Jewish lore, and Yiddishkeit, Leo Haber tells the stories of people who love learning, family, righteousness--and the pleasures of the flesh. The Red Heifer teams with unforgettable characters like the narrator's idol, hoodlum Feigy Grossman; his father, Reb Yussel, a Talmudic scholar; Aunt Geety, Uncle Oosher; and a street person who claims to be the Messiah. Each grapples, memorably, with traditional values and the cultural enticements of their new goldene medina (golden land). Just as Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes spoke to readers of diverse ethnic backgrounds, The Red Heifer speaks to The Holocaust, taking place from the pogroms.
LC Classification NumberPS3558.A257R43 2001
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