Category: Judaism
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Memoirs Chronicle Search for Identity in the Melting Pot, Pt 1
At first glance, Karen Levy’s moves back and forth between two countries seems extreme. However, when you look more closely, you can see similarities to what millions of kids face when they go back and forth between the cultural mixing at school during the day, and ethnicity of their home at night. For those kids,…
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A Memoir of a Girl’s Urgent Need to Find Identity
An author’s search for identity is one of my favorite themes in a memoir. On the surface, such an introspective search might not seem important enough to motivate me to read and enjoy a whole book. And yet, when I think back on the problems of growing up, my own search for identity drove me…
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