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High Holiday Sutra

Autor Allan Appel
en Limba Engleză Paperback – oct 1997
A Jewish-Buddhist love story and satire of modern religious mores during a Yom Kippur sermon.

In a heartbreaking and hilarious Yom Kippur sermon, Jonah tells a tragicomic Jewish-Buddhist love story that takes on one of the critical religious issues of the 1990s—can we stay true to tradition and keep our faith relevant to our everyday lives?
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ISBN-13: 9781566890656
ISBN-10: 1566890659
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Coffee House Press

Notă biografică

Born in Chicago in 1946 and raised in Los Angeles, Allan Appel is a novelist, poet, and playwright whose books include Club Revelation, High Holiday Sutra, winner of a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, and The Rabbi of Casino Boulevard, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. His writing has appeared in the National Jewish Monthly, the Progressive, and National Lampoon, and his plays have been produced in New York, Chicago, New Haven, and Provincetown. He has published a total of six novels, a biography, two collections of poetry, a book on botany, and A Portable Apocalypse, a handy anthology of erudite and humorous quotations about the end of the world.

Allan Appel holds degrees in writing and comparative literature from Columbia University and City University of New York, and he attended the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Most recently he has worked at the Jewish Museum and taught English at the Trinity School in NYC. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut, where in 2003 he was awarded a fellowship in fiction from the State of Connecticut Commission on the Arts.

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In a heartbreaking and hilarious Yom Kippur sermon, Jonah tells a tragicomic Jewish-Buddhist love story that takes on one of the critical religious issues of the 1990s - can we stay true to tradition and keep our faith relevant to our everyday lives?