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In the years after the Civil War, a Jewish family migrates westward, seeking a homestead and the freedom and security denied them in their native Russia. Led by Papa, a great scholar and mystic, and Mama, a pragmatic, loving woman, the family overcomes great hardship in their search for the promise of America - a home to call their own, a life free from oppression.
So begins the tale of young Ariel, a wise, serious and sometimes impulsive boy, determined to celebrate his Bar Mitzvah. Traversing the rugged, lawless American Southwest, Ariel encounters Lozen, the sister of the great Apache warrior chieftain Victorio. Becoming fast friends, Ariel and Lozen learn from one another how both peoples cling tenaciously and lovingly to their traditions and beliefs in the face of incredible challenges, and how the land around them is alive with wonder - and danger. Imprint: Seraphic Press.
- Sales Rank: #516176 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Seraphic Press
- Published on: 2004-11-16
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .90" h x 6.78" w x 8.86" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 230 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
Review
Avrech’s wise coming-of-age novel delivers memorable characters... suspense, dashes of humor, lessons... that bridge cultures and generations. -- Rochelle Krich, author of Grave Endings
Beautiful, funny, poignant—an exquisite novel. -- Michael Levin, author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Jewish Spirituality & Mysticism
This is can’t put-it-down reading... a compelling fable. -- The Jewish Press
About the Author
A screenwriter and producer based in Hollywood, Robert J. Avrech wrote the acclaimed thriller Body Double, directed by Brian DePalma. His script for the modern Hasidic tale A Stranger Among Us, directed by Sidney Lumet, was an official selection of the Cannes Film Festival. Robert won an Emmy Award for his adaptation of the young adult classic The Devil’s Arithmetic and was nominated for The Humanitas Award for Within These Walls, starring Ellen Burstyn and Laura Dern. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and children.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
Cannot praise this book highly enough!
By HeyJudy
I'll admit, I bought THE HEBREW KID AND THE APACHE MAIDEN for my 12 year-old nephew, but I couldn't resist taking a peek myself. And, once I started it, I was hooked; couldn't put it down.
Author Robert Avrech has crafted a marvelous plot. He weaves together the history of the Jews with details about traditional anti-Semitism--both in Europe and in the United States--along with lore about the American Wild West of the 19th Century.
This novel is a work which combines great imagination with scholarly research.
Every page here is an adventure, starting with Apaches on the war path and moving on to Mexican desperadoes. The reader, especially the younger reader, definitely will learn much about the Jewish religion as a result of reading this book.
According to the author's biography, he already is a successful screenwriter. I have read novels written by great authors, and I have seen screenplays written by great screenwriters, and THE HEBREW KID AND THE APACHE MAIDEN is the equal of the best of them.
Robert Avrech dedicated this book to the memory of his son.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
A Metaphor For One Man's Journey Through Hollywood
By Luke Ford
I read this novel by my friend Robert J. Avrech straight through in two hours Friday night. I laughed out loud a dozen times. It is terrific and a much-needed contribution to fiction for kids.
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A soldier approaches the frum family.
"You get back to your Cossack friends before I knock your head in, you dirty little sheygitz." Mama lifted a cast iron skillet.
"Please, ma'am, I'm not a sheygitz. My name is Schulman. I'm a landsman. A Jew."
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The mother yells at this Indian maiden Lozen. "So you be careful who you call a witch. Let me tell you something, you might scare the goyim with your whoops and hollers and guns and knives, but to me you're just a little shicksah pisher. And a little advice, maidel: you should spend a bit more time on your looks... You think a man is going to want to marry a wild girl? You should be thinking about a shidduch, not riding around like you're on the warpath!"
Mama was practically shouting. Lozen nodded mutely.
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The book is written from the perspective of Ariel, a 12-year old about to celebrate his bar mitzvah in the Wild West of the 1870s.
It's clearly crafted by an accomplished screenwriter. All the scenes have conflict and move the story forward. Most of the chapters end with a hook that compells you to keep reading. The story often heads in the opposite direction of what you'd expect.
Dialogue is an Avrech strength. His emails are frequently hilarious when he paints his life with spare dialogue.
While Ariel is the book's most sympathetic character, momma and Doc Holliday are the most entertaining.
The book reminds me a great deal of Robert's movie A Stranger Among Us with its romantic view of Jewish mysticism. Both works have lead characters named Ariel who dabble in kaballah.
I love the absurd tensions of an Orthodox family trying to deal with the goyim in the Wild West.
The book comes out of a robust confidence that must flow from Robert's life that Orthodox Judaism is strong enough to tackle the wider world. I believe that Robert Avrech (who comes from a long line of Orthodox rabbis and his son Ariel would've carried on that tradition) is the first Orthodox screenwriter of feature films (with Brian De Palma's Body Double in 1984). In the world in which he grew up, Hollywood was at best foolishness.
So Robert must've learned at his secular college, and at his secular kibbutz in Israel, and in secular Hollywood, how to interact with non-Jews, righteous and otherwise, while maintaining his Orthodoxy.
Robert's life reminds me of My Name is Asher Lev, probably my favorite Jewish novel.
I read The Hebrew Kid for fun, but I reflect on it as an allegory of Robert's journey through the non-Orthodox world.
Like the frum family in his novel, Robert has long strived to practice Orthodox Judaism within a frequently hostile environment.
Avrech is not of the "Yossi Klein Halevi school of Orthodox Judaism," which simply posits that Orthodoxy is the language he learned to communicate with God. Robert is authentically Orthodox (literally means correct belief) in the sense that he truly believes in the Thirteen Principles of Maimonidies, and not just in some figurative sense. I know. I've grilled him on these.
I believe that Yossi and Robert both went to Brooklyn Talmudic Academy, aka Yeshiva University High School of Brooklyn. Yossi writes about it in his Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist.
The lead Jewish characters in this novel have meaningful interactions with non-Jews. Their worldview divides people not just along Jew and non-Jew, but most significantly along the lines of moral and immoral. The Jews learn from the goyim and vice versa. The Jews constantly face pressures for which they know no immediate halachic answer, but instead have to search themselves and their sacred texts for direction.
Because they live in the real world, the Jews in the novel sin. They're real. They're not cookie-cutter characters like much religious fiction for teens.
Three years ago, Robert told me he could never write a novel.
Three years ago, Robert didn't have a son who was dying.
As he worked on this novel, Robert used to read portions to Ariel, who laughed when he had the strength.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Adventure story that teaches love and compassion
By jennybird
I met screenwriter Robert J. Avrech and his wife for the first time before Christmas, and he presented me with a copy of his book. He hoped to learn the impact his words would have on a non-Jewish California girl. Today, I emailed him the following message, which I hope will be useful to persons considering his book as a delightful addition to their bookshelves and their lives:
I want you to know that I finally had some quiet time yesterday afternoon/evening to sit alone and enjoy your book. That the story revolves around a Jewish family is in no way a road block to enjoying the pages. In fact, I was incredibly grateful for the glossary at the end of the book, which I referred to again and again, and the story not only satisfied my thirst for adventure but also for cultural knowledge.
The empathy and compassion with which you drew the characters -- Jews, goyims, gamblers and warriers alike -- enabled the story to be appealing cross-culturally. When Ariel brought this message home in the last few pages at his bat mitzvah, I was moved to tears. Your story is really all about love, isn't it? I feel it on every page. I can see that this book will be appealing to audiences young and old, because it is so fun to accompany your characters on their journey, and there is also deeper meaning on every page. Thank you for sharing this with me.
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