Volume 52, Number 7 · April 28, 2005
Fathers and Son
By Russell Baker
Omaha Blues: A Memory Loop
by Joseph Lelyveld
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 226 pp., $22.00
When Joseph Lelyveld was six years old it occurred to him that he was less important to his parents than he wanted to be, that they might even think him a nuisance. That summer—it was 1943—he found himself living with a farm family of Seventh-Day Adventists in rural Nebraska. Though he was Jewish and his father a rabbi, he spent Saturday mornings in the basement of a country church taking religious instruction in the Seventh-Day Adventist faith.
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