Actress and playwright Vanessa Rosenthal has been searching for her
identity her whole life. Is she Jewish or not? English or not? This
character, or that, on and off stage? As she explores these
conflicting positions, her frank and funny findings form the basis
of this fascinating memoir, bringing her to no fixed conclusion.
Vanessa’s story covers her early life and family – and how her
mother’s conversion to Judaism sowed the seed of being on the
outside looking in. It takes the reader through her years of
marriage and family, and the comic trials and successes of life as
an actor, mother, wife and ‘establishment’ partner as well as
her travels in Europe and Israel. Along the way she examines many
taboos on Jewishness, including the deeply sensitive subject of how
Judaism deals with conversion. The questions persist despite a
happy and creative life, bursting at the seams but this
multifaceted and moving memoir moves her closer to one answer: as
an apparently insufficiently Jewish Jew, what or who should she be?
This memoir will appeal to readers who enjoyed Lynn Barber’s An
Education and Laura Cumming’s On Chapel Sands.
General
| Imprint: |
Red Door Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
October 2021 |
| Authors: |
Vanessa Rosenthal
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| Dimensions: |
216 x 138 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
224 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-913062-83-5 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
General
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-913062-83-X |
| Barcode: |
9781913062835 |
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