Donigers of Great Neck
Subtitle: A Mythologized Memoir
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781512603521
Subjects: Jewish women; Authors, biography; New york (state), biography; Jews, united states, biography; Women, united states, biography
Description: "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"--