Leah's Journey
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- Synopsis
- LEAH'S JOURNEY is a sweeping novel of family relationships and cultural heritage--of the journeys men make and of the Jewish experience in twentieth-century America. It is the story of three generations of men and women, of the depths of their poverty and the heights of their prosperity, their warm days in love and their dark days at war, their conflicts and bonds with each other, and their unique personal efforts to grow and change. And it is the glowing story of one young woman: beautiful, passionate, and unsure, Leah Goldfeder makes a poignant journey in search of herself. Leah's saga begins when she and her husband flee the oppressions of the Old World to make a courageous new life in the melting pot of Manhattan's Lower East Side. The harshness of Leah's life there is tempered by personal rewards; and as we experience with her the roiling streets and cruel sweatshops of New York during the grim years of Depression, we come to know the friends and family who struggle at her side: David, her husband, who loves Leah passionately but can't reach out to her; Eli, a charismatic and idealistic union organizer who offers her the romance she can't seek from her husband; Aaron, Leah's son, obsessed with solving the mystery of his mother's detachment from him; Katie, Aaron's wife, who lives in a private hell her husband can't penetrate; Rebecca, Leah's daughter, adored, spoiled, and directionless, until she shoulders the responsibilities thrust on her by war; and Joshua, the amazing embodiment of the rags-to-riches ideal. These characters are fictional brothers and sisters of the self-made, self-educated, and self-assured men and women Irving Howe described in WORLD OF OUR FATHERS; and Gloria Goldreich, through her vivid sense of place and personality, evokes beautifully the sometimes painful, sometimes joyful process of their meshing into American life. As the panoramic background shifts from Manhattan's sweatshops to Israel's kibbutzim, from the Parisian world of high fashion to the gritty North African battlefields of World War II, from the lush suburbs of New York to the terrible wasteland of Nazi Germany, this splendid epic carries and moves the reader to the last. With LEAH'S JOURNEY, her first novel, Gloria Goldreich proves herself a storyteller in the finest tradition.
- Copyright:
- 1978
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 403 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780151494514
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 09/08/04
- Copyrighted By:
- Gloria Goldreich
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Joni Colver
- Proofread By:
- Pam Quinn
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.