With him, she bore her first eight children, fervently adopted Christianity and founded a black Baptist church. Harlem of the early 1940's, and her marriage to a black minister. She recalls her own bitter childhood, her flight to the Jewish Bronx and then to the The second voice is that of Rachel Shilsky, daughter of a failed itinerant Orthodox Jewish rabbi in a virulently anti-Semitic and violently racist small Southern town. Writer who traces his own evolution and that of his 11 brothers and sisters from childhood in a Brooklyn housing project to accomplished maturity. One is the voice of a black musician, composer and Here are two voices in this complex and moving narrative, and - on the surface - they could not seem more different. JACK GEIGERĪ Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother.
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