There is no shortage of books focused on Jewish family life, but Elizabeth Poliner’s stands apart as an instant classic. It is an inspired literary exploration of the tension between personal and family identity, between masculine and feminine models of achievement, between tradition as habit and tradition as choice, between love that gives and love that demands.
Though the novel examines an extended family and its world over three generations, its point of focus is the summer of 1948, immediately following modern Israel’s birth and, for the Leibritsky family, the trauma of its youngest member’s accidental death. Spatially and culturally, its main arena is a place informally named Bagel Beach: the family vacation area on the Connecticut shore of Long Island Sound that constitutes a summer Jewish beachfront neighborhood in the midst of other ethnic enclaves.
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These are not governed by pre-determnined set of rules.Lets focus on the informal type of discussions.
ReplyDeleteIn the classroom discussions involve a free verbal interchange of ideas for all pupils as a whole. http://www.fairmontschools.com/2018/03/21/importance-of-parent-involvement-in-early-childhood-education/