valeriesolanas rated In My Father's Court: 5 stars

In My Father's Court by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Like Isaac Bashevis Singer's fiction, this poignant memoir of his childhood in the household and rabbinical court of his father …
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Like Isaac Bashevis Singer's fiction, this poignant memoir of his childhood in the household and rabbinical court of his father …

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its …

It's about two jewish boys from different jewish sects with very differing doctrine. The kids meet in the unlikely circumstance …

Two young men question the "orthodoxy" of values and religion in a world cut off from their Hasidic traditions.
I will likely rate this differently upon reread. I came into this as a beginner, not knowing almost anything about classic Chinese philosophy, and left feeling like this version was particularly out of my league. Will do more research and reading and come back around to this version.

"Darwish composed this remarkable elegy at the apex of his creativity, but with the full knowledge that his death was …