Sunday Jews
By: Hortense Calisher.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harcourt
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 694
Subjects: Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.; Women intellectuals -- Fiction.; Jewish families -- Fiction.; Jewish women -- Fiction.; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Sunday Jews explores a family united in blood yet divided by ideas. Charles, the eldest son, hopes to be a Supreme Court justice; family beauty Nell has children by different lovers; art expert Erika has altered her appearance, yet clings to her role as custodian of the family's Jewishness; and artist Zach has two wives. Their mother, infamous in Israel, born of a well-to-do Boston family but no longer rich, is bound to a past that never quite dies.

The buried history of this extraordinary - and very American - family comes to light unexpectedly when grandson Bert brings home as a wife the woman who, some years ago, joined the family circle and then mysteriously disappeared."--BOOK JACKET.