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Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
1976
Description
A pharmaceutical mishap draws Rabbi Small into a murder investigation in this New York Times bestseller New Age thinking has come to Barnard's Crossing, Massachusetts. The recently elected president of Rabbi David Small's synagogue is intent on using temple money to build a meditation retreat. The congregation is practicing yoga, buying crystals, and reciting chants. When a troubled young man returns to the town after spending time in a controversial...
Author
Series
Publisher
A. Fields Books
Pub. Date
[1974.]
Edition
[First edition].
Description
"Rabbi David Small has had it with the constant bickering of congregational life, so when offered the chance to teach a course in Jewish studies at Windemere Christian College, he grabs it. He should have quit while he was ahead. His encounter with Windemere makes a temple board meeting look mild in comparison. 'Rabbi,' according to the tradition, means 'teacher'--but there's nothing traditional about the way Rabbi Small, trained in Talmudic scholarship...
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Series
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[1964]
Description
Winner of the Edgar Award: Rabbi Small investigates a murder in which he's the prime subject David Small is the new rabbi in the small Massachusetts town of Barnard's Crossing. Although he'd rather spend his days engaged in Torah study and theological debate, the daily chores of synagogue life are all-consuming-that is, until the day a nanny's body is found on the rain-soaked asphalt of the temple's parking lot. When the young woman's purse is...
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Series
Publisher
Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
[1996]
Edition
First edition.
Description
The head of the English department at Boston's Windermere College is murdered and there is no shortage of people who might have done it. Professor Malcom Kent, the victim, was a philanderer, a Peeping Tom and a snob. Rabbi David Small, professor of Judaica at the college investigates, drawn into the case because a suspect is a fellow rabbi. By the author of The Day the Rabbi Resigned.
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1969]
Description
As Passover approaches, Rabbi Small contends with infighting, backstabbing, and an actual murder in this New York Times bestseller As Rabbi David Small's 5-year contract winds down at the synagogue in Barnard's Crossing, Massachusetts, some members of the congregation are plotting to remove him; others are whispering about starting a new temple of their own across the street. When the rabbi gets an invitation to perform Passover services at a local...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
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David Small's harrowing account of growing up under the watchless eyes of parents who gave him cancer (his radiologist father subjected him to unscrupulous x-rays for minor ailments) and let it develop untreated for years--but in delicate glimpses of the author's child's-eye view, sketched most often with no words at all. Early memories (and difficult ones, too) often seem less like words than pictures we play back to ourselves.
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