| Ariel Samson: Freelance Rabbi Contributor(s): Manishtana (Author) |
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ISBN: 0692071563 ISBN-13: 9780692071564 Publisher: Shais Rishon OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Jewish - Fiction | African American - General |
| Dewey: 813.6 |
| Physical Information: 1.06" H x 6" W x 9" (1.52 lbs) 474 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Jewish - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Ariel Samson is just your run of the mill anomaly: a 20-something black Orthodox Jewish rabbi looking for love, figuring out life, and floating between at least two worlds. Luckily, it gets worse. Finding himself the spiritual leader of a dying synagogue, and accidentally falling into viral internet fame, Ariel is suddenly catapulted into a series of increasingly ridiculous conflicts with belligerent college students, estranged families, corrupt politicians, hippophilic coworkers, vindictive clergymen, and even attempted murder. (And also Christian hegemony, racism, anti-Semitism, toxic Hotepism, and white Jewish privilege. Because today ends in "y.") But all that's the easy part. Because whether Ariel knows it or not, he's due for a breakthrough. Several, in fact. And he's about to find out whether or not he's strong enough to re-evaluate everything he thought he knew about himself, and own up to the things he didn't. Thought leader and provocateur MaNishtana turns his eye to fiction in this imaginative, semi-autobiographical novel, making Ariel Samson, Freelance Rabbi the most dazzling debut of an Orthodox black Jew born on a Sunday at 2:24AM in a Brooklyn hospital in 1982 that you will ever have the privilege of reading. 2018 Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award's Goldberg Award for Debut Fiction. |