Having traced five generations of his own California Jewish families....What, the author asks remains of the religious component? The answer: a single family. How and why this came to pass is the author's principal concern. Examining over a hundred years of his California families, he tracks the Silvermans and Gitmeds in their earliest beginnings in Eastern Europe and Boston, as next door neighbors in Watts, Southern California, onto the third largest Jewish community in the States, Boyle Heights, East L.A., then to the Westside as both families carry on their mainly secular Jewish lives while he tries to understand the religious defections of family members. A tale of woe, inquiry and affirmation as he tries to retain his own faith. Mel Silverman is a rabbi who also writes fiction and non-fiction books. Born and raised in East Los Angeles, he graduated from UCLA and Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute for Religion and has served Reform congregations in West Virginia,...

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