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Bagels and Grits

A Jew on the Bayou

  • Hardback
  • 176 pages
  • Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
  • 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.6 cm

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Jennifer Anne Moses left behind a comfortable life in the upper echelons of East Coast Jewish society to move with her husband and children to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Searching for connection to her surroundings, she decided to volunteer at an AIDS hospice. But as she encountered a culture populated by French Catholics and Evangelical Christians, African Americans and Cajuns, altruistic nurses and nuns, ex-cons, street-walkers, impoverished AIDS patients, and healers of all stripes, she found she had embarked on an unexpected journey of profound self-discovery. In a keenly observed memoir that embraces both pathos and humor, Moses takes us into a world that is strange and sad but also suffused with the holy. As witness to dire poverty and extreme adversity, Moses discovers a deeper commitment to her own faith - a Judaism that asks not for blind belief, but rather daily commitment. She recounts the challenges of taking on a life committed to God in a postmodern world that has little use for the divine. Telling her story of redemption with an honesty that goes right for the guts, she leaves the reader with new hope.
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  • Author

    Jennifer Anne Moses

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    University of Wisconsin Press

  • Published

    October 2007

  • Edition

    1, with a New Afterword ed.

  • Weight

    367g

  • Page Count

    176

  • Dimensions

    15.2 x 22.9 x 1.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9780299224400

  • ISBN-10

    0299224406

  • Eden Code

    4570361

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