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SHOFAR Winter 1993 Vol. 11, NO.2 recognized a long-lost self in Allegra, are reasons enough. to read, and perhaps reread, the story of Alle~a Maud Goldman. yaffa Weisman Frances~Henry library Hebrew Union CollegeJewish Institute of Religion Los Angeles Tar Beach, by Richard Elman. New American Fiction Series: 23. Los Angeles: Sun and Moon Press, 1991. 273 pp. $12.95. This novel excavates some potentially rich lodes of American-Jewish ore. It is set in Brooklyn immediately after World War II. The news of the Holocaust is beginning to sink in and the Jews in Palestine are fighting for _ survival. Jewish veterans, some psychically scarred, have returned from the war. The members of this particular synagogue have acquired a whole building and turned it into a combination sanctuary, athletic club, residential hotel, and solarium. The chief social function is nude sunbathing on the roof (men and women separated by a partition), ·on what is called "tar beach." The men play cards, kibitz, gossip about real estate deals and about the garment industry, talk a little Zionist and shul politics, and banter in Brooklynese-tinted Yinglish. Peter, a troubled little boy, fantasizes that they are in Mrica-in Uganda, to be precise-having accepted
Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies – Purdue University Press
Published: Oct 3, 1993
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