Returning: A Search for Home Across Three Centuries by Nicholas Lemann Liveright, 416 pp. When he was about the age most Jewish boys might be studying to become a bar mitzvah, Nicholas Lemann’s father took him aside for a man-to-man talk—but not about being called to the Torah. This was New Orleans in the mid-1960s, and the German-origin Reform Jewish community, of which the Lemann family was a pillar, had abandoned the bar mitzvah along with …
This story is only covered by news sources that have yet to be evaluated by the independent media monitoring agencies we use to assess the quality and reliability of news outlets on our platform. Learn more here.