Word: shiksa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their search the brothers choose two extremes. One looks for truth by totally assimilating himself into christendom. The other chooses separatism by going to Israel. One marries a shiksa and the other goes to Israel and becomes a fanatical Zionist. But in neither case does Roth--the master puppeteer behind all the levels of unreality at work here--seem satisfied with the answers the two brothers provide to the dilemma of Jewishness in the modern world...
Springing from the complicated relationship between pampered Jewish boy and his doting, suffocating mother, shiksa-ism sees the mama's boy hunting outside the tribe partly in spite and partly to assert his independence...
...plausibly and palatably Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. But the novel itself is not that good to begin with. Not Richler's best work, it is a provincial rendition of the self-hating Jewish man's odyssey, his archetypal pursuit of the elusive non-Jewish woman (subtley known as the shiksa...
...classic leading-lady roles, Margaux Hemingway, 27, apparently has to take what comes in between. And that means teaming up with Elliott Gould, 44, in something called Over the Brooklyn Bridge. (In a singular stroke of good judgment, the producers changed the film's title from My Darling Shiksa.) If her screen work seems a little pale, the Hemingway magic returns the moment she lapses into her first vocation as model. Even when she dons men's clothes in Paris for a fashion spread, Margaux seems to be aging as well as the wine she was named after...