Questioning return
By: Beth Kissileff
Publisher: Mandel Vilar Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781942134237
Subjects: Jewish pilgrims and pilgrimages; Graduate students; American Jews; Emigration and immigration; Immigrants; Jewish way of life; Fiction
Description: Follows an ambitious graduate student as she spends a year in Jerusalem questioning the lives of American Jews who 'return', both to Israel itself and to traditional religious practices. Have they changed themselves at all? Are they sincere? Or happier? The unexpected answers and Wendy's own experiences in Israel, including a bus bombing, a funeral, an unexpected suicide, a love affair, and a lawsuit, lead her to reconsider her own Jewish identity and values.