Lovesong: Becoming a Jew

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The author chronicles his earliest encounters with faith in the figure of his father, a Black Methodist minister, his earliest recollections of the lure of Judaism, the South before the Civil Rights movement, and his conversion to Judaism

Genres: JudaismMemoirReligionJewishNonfictionAfrican AmericanJudaicaBiographyBiography Memoir

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