Resumo de The Courage To Be Jewish And The Wife Of An Arab Sheik

The Courage to Be Jewish and the Wife of an Arab Sheik: What's a Jewish Girl from Brooklyn Doing Living as a Bedouin? By Anne Hart, paperback mainstream psychological novel with play for performance included, published by iUniverse, Inc, June 2001, 432 pages. This novel would make a terrific cinematic movie. International orders: Call 00-1-402-323-7800, or browse the book free online at http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-18790-0. This book is about finding one's beshert, or soul mate in the Hasidic definition of the word.

The Courage to be Jewish and the Wife of an Arab Sheik is mainstream psychological novel and women's fiction, a diary-type biographical novel written in the first person as a fictional biography that reveals the life, growth, and marriage of a young woman and her Hasidic family from Bialystok living in Brooklyn?s Bensonhurst and Borough Park area from the 1940s through the 1980s in an interfaith marriage between the Jewish girl from Bensonhurst, Borough Park, and Coney Island and an Arab Sheik from the Syrian deserts and Saudi Arabia.

What's a nice, Brooklyn Jewish girl studying ethnomusicology, who plays and composes with a Klezmer fiddle and a Mizrahim oud and kanoun doing married to an Arab Sheik for six years--only to have him divorce her, take the children and all money back to Syria and his large family and mistress leaving her, his ex-wife homeless with 28 cents to her name (and no living relatives older than herself)? The answer is healing happens by playing the G-note that links Klezmer to its ancient roots in the Levant.

She?s comparing Mizrahi music to Klezmer and Taksim to Magham Seekah. Poetry found its mood here. Her childen return married with their own children many decades later to explore their mother's Hasidic past, but they return steeped and devout in their own Syrian culture and forbid her to reveal to her grandchildren anything about her own parents past to prevent social stigma in their Syrian-American community.
She must weigh her parent's faith against her children's demands and chooses to become a recluse, devoting herself to music and playwriting. Can a young girl find the roots of Hasidism in the deserts of Arabia and in the diversity of Brooklyn and California through a universal identity with healing music of all peoples?"

This adventure, a psychological mainstream novel is biographical fiction, of course, but it goes deeper into the roots of family life and how the sounds of music reflect the intergenerational links of beshert, in Hasidism, or destined soulmate to people who may have been descended from the same Cohanim ancestor 7,800 years ago that meet in contemporary times with different agendas but a universal need for family and commitment to the continuation of life and being at one with the universe?s intelligence.

The author specializes in writing ethnographic, multi-ethnic, and multi-cultural novels of diversity in marriage and divorce, family life, pscyhological novels, and drama. The author also writes numerous plays and humorous suspense and adventure or time-travel novels placed in historic or contemporary settings.

The theme of this novel is about what happens to family life when an interfaith marriage connects society and community of each partner's family, village, to world and historic social issues. This books focuses on how to solve problems and get results in life experiences.

The message is that your choices help you transcend cultural clashes. What you've looked for in exotic places can be found nearby. You learn, grow, and move on to solve problems by finding the universal patterns in the fine details. You arrive at the bigger picture of current events, shared history, and diversity. These roots are found in Hasidism and in Rumi as well as in Tao te Ching's wisdom and in Ayurvedic medicine 's push towards balance and harmony in all chakras or body electric energy points.
It's about irony, culture clashes, family commitment, and making choices as to what path in life and faith to follow to include all of humankind under the intelligence of the universe and the choices of humans in the present and future. The theme is healing and being able to transcend past choices and focus on commitment to a life purpose so the world is a kinder and gentler place.

The theme of this novel is that however far one travels to find a spouse different from one's own father, a girl could marry a man with a personality similar to her own father's either by destiny or familiarity, and that the joy of life can be found in the music, literature, and creativity of imagery, that one universal in the beauty of nature which binds us or divides us--the one universal theme that we all have in common since time began.
This life-story-type novel shows that however far you travel, and whatever you look for in exotic places, you can find right in your own backyard. The theme within the theme is commitment to holding a family together and putting bread on the table. It's about faith in humanity--even when the husband secretly sweeps the children away to his own culture for decades. There's always the universal theme of reunion.
The story is joy of living through creativity enhancement and following charisma by turning domestic violence and loss of family life to the reality of what is eternal and universal themes or patterns in wisdom, which is the joy of life.

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