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Too Jewish (2010)

by Patty Friedmann(Favorite Author)

3.66 of 5 Votes: 4

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Historical Fiction

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review 1: As someone who has always had a fascination with Holocaust survival stories, I was interested in this work of fiction told from 3 members of a Jewish family living in America who face discrimination from fellow Jews based on class. It's the idea of wanting to assimilate to a wealthy American lifestyle and the struggle of shedding their own ethnic identity in the process. It's a story of a couple and their daughter coming from different class upbringings fighting against the crazy wealthy mother-in-law who will stop at nothing to ruin her son-in-laws life because she thinks he's "too Jewish". A moving novel that is worth reading.
review 2: Disappointing book that I had wanted to like but couldn't. I thought it would be a quirky novel but the author just wanted ... morea good enough writer to carry it through and so I felt it crossed the line to politically incorrect and simply inappropriate. As one reviewer wrote, the characters are all either villains or victims. The story is told from three viewpoints and none are devoid of being awkward and anti-Semitic. Some of the subject matter is just too serious to begin with to be treated in such a callous and casually derogatory manner. I'll give it two stars being generous... less

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