Word: rabbi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SATURDAY THE RABBI WENT HUNGRY by Harry Kemelman. 249 pages. Crown...
...idea of a rabbi who plays detective on the side is just different enough to offer possibilities to a competent writer who knows all about rabbis. Harry Kemelman, 57, makes the most of the possibilities. He is a Talmudic scholar who never seemed to be getting anywhere composing thoughtful essays on comparative religion. A few years ago he switched to popular fiction, invented a rabbinical sleuth named David Small, of Barnard's Crossing, Mass., and turned Friday the Rabbi Slept Late into a bestseller. Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry, Kemelman's second book, has become a bestseller...
...Rabbi Small is a pale, unprepossessing, erudite and somewhat irascible young man who solves mysteries by using Talmudic reasoning instead of chasing off after clues. In this book, the rabbi's troubles begin when influential members of his congregation become annoyed because he has buried an apparent suicide in the temple cemetery...
...Probably the only reason we haven't used the Church before this year was that we hadn't asked for it," Rabbi Zigmond explained. "Perhaps," he added, "we might have had some trouble getting it under previous regimes [before Price took over three years...
...Rabbi Zigmond would have had some trouble if he had tried a decade ago, when Mem Church was under the leadership of the Rev. George A. Buttrick. But-trick said "it would be intellectually dishonest for Christian and Jewish marriages to be carried on beneath the same roof...