The Rabbi's Wife
The Rabbi's Wife is a 1977 novel by David Benedictus. The plot centers of the kidnapping of a rabbi's wife by Palestinian terrorists. At the time of its release, the book was reviewed in such publications as The Spectator, British Book News, and The Library Journal Book Review.
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First edition
(publ, Blond & Briggs)
(publ, Blond & Briggs)
Rabbi David J. Zucker described the book's portrayal of how members of the rabbi's synagogue treated him after the kidnapping as "indifference", which he interpreted as a fictional example of the "loneliness of rabbinic life".[1]
References
- Zucker, David J. (1998). American Rabbis: Facts and Fiction. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 119. ISBN 0-7657-9989-8.
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