Judaism

NA describes her parents as unorthodox Orthodox Jews , whose solidly professional circumstances were not far removed from working-class backgrounds. She has said, too, that she had a fundamentalist religious upbringing. Her father wrote that...

MA and her brother were giggling and occasionally disruptive members of the congregation of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in Stamps, Arkansas; she tells a hilarious comic story about a sister in the congregation who...

Both her parents had grown up in highly cultivated Jewish homes headed by entrepreneurs who like most of the Jews of Konigsberg had roots in Russia. They were semi-observant in Judaism and well assimilated in...

Her family were British members of prosperous, successful Jewry. In 1884 D'Israeli had only been dead four years and tolerance was very much the order of the day. So that anti-semitism was at a very...

Brought up in the observance of Judaism , HPrenounced religion as soon as his bar mitzvah was over, although his Jewish identity continued to be important to him. He became in maturity a determinedly...

Her parents belonged to the educated, professional middle class, and were practising Christians within the Church of England , where (even to a teenager beginning to experience doubts) the services were beautiful with candlelight and...

Her time in Dresden crystallized her mixed feelings about the practice of her religion . Visiting the synagogue (for Yom Kippur) disgusted her: she said that German Jews made her feel anti-semitic.Zion unventilated...

NJ 's father, Samuel Jacob , had started life in Germany, the country to which his father had fled as a boy from Poland, after his parents were killed in pogroms. Longer ago...

The story is set in Oxford in the year 1221, six years after a statute decreed that to guard against ethnic mixing, Jews in Britain were to wear a large patch on the front of...

MDF published her pamphlet Poems, Occasioned by the Confinement and Acquittal of the Right Honourable Lord George Gordon , President of the Protestant Association.

The book is a kind of kaleidoscope of splintered biography and textual commentary, emphasizing its subject's Jewish heritage. It uses Derrida 's confessions, published ten years earlier as a gloss for another text altogether...

This is partly a book about change and modernization. RF welcomed particularly the stamping out of tribal conflict and corruption in Iran, and the tolerance newly extended to Jews , Christians , and Zoroastrians

Here MF describes a visit to the New London Synagogue , sponsor of this publication. She writes of her delight in the singing, with its extraordinary vitality, spontaneity, and tragic beauty, the naturalness and informality...

Zen Buddhism as well as Judaism directs the searching of Alex's sceptical, deeply unhappy nature. His friend Adam (who consumes more pot and less booze) is both earnestly Jewish and effortlessly Zen. Fifteen years after...

The Straight Road begins with the sensitive David Waterlow at Liverpool Street Station in London, depressed because he is saying goodbye to his friend Geoffrey, becoming fascinated by a young woman clearly in deep...