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In a passionate, energetic narrative, The Promise brilliantly dramatizes what it is to master and use knowledge to make one's own way in the world. Reuven Malter lives in Brooklyn, he's in love, and he's studying to be a rabbi. He also keeps c
A coming-of-age classic about two Jewish boys growing up in Brooklyn in the 1940s, this "profound and universal" ( The Wall Street Journal ) story of faith, family, tradition, and assimilation remains deeply pertinent today. "Works of this
"REMARKABLE . . . A WONDERFUL STORY." --The Boston Globe The father is a high-ranking Communist officer, a Jew who survived Stalin's purges. The son is a "refusenik," who risked his life and happiness to protest everything his fath
"Powerful . . . It successfully recreates a time and place and the journey of a soul." --The New York Times All beginnings are hard--that is the lesson David Lurie learns early and painfully in his life. As a boy in the depression-shadowed Bronx