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302 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The author describes how she left both Orthodox Judaism and her marriage and followed her inner compass to forge a new life for herself and her children while seeking her own path to happiness.
Born and raised in a tight-knit Orthodox Jewish family, Mirvis committed herself to observing the rules and rituals: to observe was to be accepted and to be accepted was to be loved. She married a man from within the fold and quickly began a family. Her doubts...
Author
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xii, 269 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The remarkable true story of how one Peruvian carpenter led hundreds of Catholics to Judaism, sparking a pilgrimage from the Andes to Israel and inspiring a wave of emerging Latin American Jewish communities"--
Born in 1927 in a tiny farming village perched in the Andes, Segundo Villaneuva was seventeen when his father was murdered. Left with little more than a Bible as his inheritance, he entered on a lifelong obsession to find the true message...
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