Two rival worlds eyed each other across the carpet. The second bookcase was populated by authors like Sartre and Camus, the leading literati and secular intellectuals of the West.
One held 4000 years of Jewish tradition: commentaries on the Torah or five books of Moses, and the Talmud, 18 volumes of rabbinic laws and discussions. Secondly, I recall the living room of one observant Jew. In 2010, my father had cancer of the oesophagus. Anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff was a secular Jew, now delving into her religious roots as she faced death: two weeks after the final interview she died of lung cancer. In 2010 I saw a documentary on Orthodox Judaism in Los Angeles, In Her Own Time (1986 – see review).
Twin Bookcases: Growing up with Binoculars What happens when two worlds clash within a single soul?
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