The Donigers of Great Neck

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"This is the story of the contrasting Judaisms that Wendy Doniger's two parents brought from their very different homes in Europe during World War I; of their paths to a shared but sharply bifurcated life in America during World War II, her father a publisher, her mother a political activist; and of the ways in which their attitudes to religion in general, and Judaism in particular, influenced the author's development as a Jewish woman and a scholar of religion"--

subjects: Jewish women,  Authors, biography,  New york (state), biography,  Jews, united states, biography,  Women, united states, biography,  Family,  Biography,  American Authors,  Sanskritists,  Families