{"id":10291,"date":"2006-09-26T11:35:41","date_gmt":"2006-09-26T15:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2006\/09\/26\/10291.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:55:17","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:55:17","slug":"book-report-allofakind-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2006\/09\/26\/book-report-allofakind-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: All-of-a-Kind Family"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the things about living in a town with a rather concentrated Jewish population is that I can buy taiglach at the local market on the day of Erev Rosh Hashanah. True, buying taiglach was an error&#8212;Your Humble Blogger is crazy about honey, but with the apples-and-honey, and the honey-glazed carrots, and the honey cake, too much was enough already even without the taiglach. Still, taiglach.\n<p>Another is that the local branch of the library has all of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780385732956\">All-of-a-Kind Family<\/a> books, shelved over with the series books. And when I couldn&#8217;t remember the author&#8217;s name, the librarian didn&#8217;t have to look it up. Are these still popular? They seem so dated. The whole thing, the urban poverty with its pretensions of&#8212;I was going to say gentility, but that&#8217;s an odd word under the circs&#8212;anyway, the ironed petticoats, the dusted front parlour, and the importance of <I>pennies<\/I>, all seem evoke another world entirely. Which, of course, is the point, and was the point even back when the books were written. Still.\n<p>One thing that (I hope) dates the book particularly is the attitude towards women. The girls accept their secondary status unquestioningly, and although they love the idea of going to <I>shul<\/I> with Papa for the holiday, they don&#8217;t expect to be an actual part of the congregation. Everybody understands what a tragedy it is for Papa to have five daughters and no sons, and when he weeps, alone, at the thought that the sixth will inevitably be a daughter as well, the reader is supposed to sympathize. And, of course, Mama doesn&#8217;t have a job, and although most women in their neighborhood work (mostly at needles, although there is a (Christian) library lady), it&#8217;s clear that such is the force of necessity, rather there being any non-monetary benefit to a job. Not to mention, the Lord forbid, independence.\n<p><I>chazak, chazak, v&#8217;nitchazek<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things about living in a town with a rather concentrated Jewish population is that I can buy taiglach at the local market on the day of Erev Rosh Hashanah. True, buying taiglach was an error\u2014Your Humble Blogger&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17822,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10291\/revisions\/17822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}