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13 and a day
the bar and bat mitzvah across America
By Oppenheimer, Mark
- ISBN
- 978-0-37410-665-2
- Publisher
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on August 15, 2005
There are a number of very good bar and bat mitzvah planning guides, but religious historian and journalist Oppenheimer, a Jew who was never bar-mitzvahed, examines this Jewish rite of passage from a different perspective. Traveling across the United States from New York to Anchorage, he attends the b'nai mitzvah of about a dozen young people--Reform, Conservative, Orthodox, and Lubavitcher. Oppenheimer profiles...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
