Mourning and Celebration: Jewish, Orthodox and Gay, Past and Present
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (647 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B003ZK5FWK |
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| Number of Pages | : | 366 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Have you ever wondered how life would have been, had you been born one hundred years earlier? Mourning and Celebration is how author K. This is a story of a personal search for validation and human rights, in a context where that concept was not yet understood.. Subsequently, we follow his development through intense relationships with his family, rabbis and lovers. Although blessed with social skills, he feels isolated as a young teenager. And he's gay.Within the framework of conversations with his alter ego who lives in a 19th-century Polish shtetl, the narrator learns how a gay, Orthodox Jew like himself managed to emerge from the social pressures of his community.Yankl is a brilliant scholar, a talented violinist, an only son and gay. David Brody answers that question.Yankl lives in a 19th-century Polish shtetl
Mourning and Celebration is his first novel. His grandparents immigrated to London from Rypin, Poland early in the 20th century and his parents were practicing Orthodox Jews. He graduated from Edinburgh University, Scotland, subsequently moving to Montreal, Canada, He worked initially at Société Radio-Canada, the French division of CBC, then moved to Jerusalem for two years in the 1980s. David Brody was born in London, UK. On returning to Montreal, he worked as a freelance translator from French to English. About the Author K. Although that experience was enriching from several points of
. On returning to Montreal, he worked as a freelance translator from French to English. Mourning and Celebration is his first novel. K. His grandparents immigrated to London from Rypin, Poland early in the 20th century and his parents were practicing Orthodox Jews. He continues to be an Orthodox Jew and participates actively in the Jewish community. David Brody was born
The Rev. Dr. Donald F. Bell said Mourning and Celebration. David Brody has written a powerful and sensitive story about human love as it was and is experienced by gay men with a vibrant spirituality, shaped by the tradtions of the Jewish faith. In a touching way, David imagines an encounter between himself today and a Chassidic Jew named Yankl, who lived more than a century earlier. Yank. "vivid storytelling gracefully written" according to H. Handler. "David Brody in his new novel, Mourning and Celebration, vividly recreatesthe world of Eastern European Jewry at the end of the nineteenth centurybefore it was decimated by by the Holocaust. With an authenticity thatreminds us of Isaac Bashevis Singer he draws readers into his narrative.Brody holds their interest by asking the fo. Carole Rocklin said Heatwarming and very real. I have just read your book for the second time and cried again! Thank you for sharing this with me and indeed the world.Carole Rocklin, fund-raiser Montreal, Canada