Eliezer Sobel

Minyan: Ten Jewish Men In A World That is Heartbroken (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel, Minyan is both bittersweet and hilarious in a way that hurts to laugh. It is the tale of Norbert Wilner, a man who has mastered the art of arrested development who, at 37, is still single and living in New York City, surrounded by the Jewish guys he grew up with in Jersey. They are all searching for God, women, and most of all, a good pastrami-on-rye with spicy brown mustard, a side of potato salad and a cream soda.

Bernstein is a Hindu, Greenblatt's a Sufi, Weissbaum worships Willie Mays, and nobody likes Finkelstein, the big-shot lawyer and born-again Christian. And Freddy Lipschitz has just died. As these middle-aged men gather to mourn their childhood friend, they begin to take stockand make shtickof their failed relationships, missed opportunities, questionable careers, and the underlying sense of dread that pervades their existence. For despite growing up in the seemingly carefree atmosphere of America in the 1950s, Norbert and his friends still find themselves living in the long shadow of the Holocaust. Fearful children of nervous Jewish mothers, they were instructed to be wary of everything and everyone; to lock the doors, wear earmuffs, and marry Jewish girls.

"Who knew, at age 12, that there could be a direct link between little Mary-Anne Hamilton and Hitler? But there was. The innocent Sunday school cross around her neck may as well have been a swastika, to anyone who had survived the war, as my mother did. I saw a cute girl in pigtails; my mother saw Hitler Youth, saw ovens and smoke and her dead grandmother."

A chance meeting with the eccentric Reb Miltie helps Norbert begin to find salvation through the humor, teachings and melodies of the Ba'al Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidism, as well as through the camaraderie of his life-long friends as they passionately pursue meaning, marriage, and the healing properties of brisket. Minyan celebrates the endurance of adult men completely baffled by the affairs of the adult world, and the healing power of laughter, tears and friendship.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Eliezer Sobel
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780997121704
• Artikelnr.: 74352882

Autorenporträt

Eliezer Sobel is also the author of Blue Sky, White Clouds: A Book for Memory-Challenged Adults. Although there are over 20,000 books for caregivers, this is one of the only books aimed at the patient. It is a simple, adult, picture book, filled with beautiful, realistic photographs of people and nature, which requires no memory to read and enjoy. If you are caring for a loved one with dementia or Alzheimer's, or know someone who is, this book provides a shared activity that can stimulate conversation if that is still a possibility, and tender moments of connection regardless of what stage of memory-loss the person is in.

See www.blueskywhiteclouds.com for further information.

Sobel is also the author of:

The 99th Monkey: A Spiritual Journalist's Misadventures with Gurus, Messiahs, Sex, Psychedelics and Other Consciousness-Raising Experiments, the tale of the author's hilarious and poignant 30-year journey that regularly took him from the sublime to the insane in equal measure;

Wild Heart Dancing: A Personal One-Day Quest to Liberate the Artist and Lover Within, designed to awaken and unleash the reader's dormant creativity in a one-day, at-home self-intensive;

Why I Am Not Enlightened, an e-book that should make you feel better about not being a Perfectly Realized Master;

and The Manual of Good Luck, long out of print but still makes for a good story. Read about it here:
www.eliezersobel.com/manualgoodluck.html

Eliezer has a blog on PsychologyToday.com, has led creativity intensives and meditation retreats around the United States, and is a certified teacher of the 5Rhythms® movement practice developed by Gabrielle Roth.

He is married to Shari Cordon.

www.eliezersobel.com