Migrant Soul: The Story of an American Ger
By Avi Shafran.
Description
When Abel Gomes, a dark-skinned descendant of full-blooded Mohawk and Narragansett Indians, makes his mind to become a Jew, he has no idea of the complicated, winding path that lies before him. Raised Catholic, he has been mysteriously drawn to Judaism even as a teenager. By the time he decides to convert, he is married to an assimilated Jewish woman and his two daughters are enrolled in a Conservative day school. Encounters with a Reform rabbi quickly convince him that there must be more to conversion than reading a few books and joining Jewish organizations. Instead, Abel becomes Ovady...
ISBN(s)
0944070450, 9780944070451
