The Jewish coming-of-age ceremony of bar mitzvah was first recorded in thirteenth-century France, where it took the form of a simple statement by the father tha

"Published by the University of Nebraska Press as a Jewish Publication Society book."

"Published by the University of Nebraska Press as a Jewish Publication Society book."

A haunting and powerful collection of stories from one of America's finest writers.

Presents the story of the author's journeys across America to attend the most distinctive b'nai mitzvah he could find in order to reveal how the bar and the bat