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Review title: the end destroys the means (and meaning)
Product review: If you really want to enjoy this book, tear out the last two chapters before you start reading and throw them away. The book shows how hard and admirably Hamill tried to understand Judaism from his Irish Catholic perspective; the ending shows how miserably he failed. The rabbi couldn't prevent the Holocaust because he wasn't "pure" enough, but a pre-teen Irish Catholoic can call up the miracle required to save the Jews?? At its worst, the ending smacks of anti-Semitism; at its best, it completely destroys what up to then had been an engrossing narrative by displaying an utter lack of understanding of what it means to be a post-Holocaust Jew. And I won't say anything about how the ending is a cop-out in itself. (See the "Deus Ex Machina" comments in other negative reviews.) Up until the end, I was excited to be reading the book; after it, I was only angry.
