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Title: Loved the Book, Loathed the Author
Review: It's a fascinating, real-life topic: A large group of ultra-Orthodox Jews move into a small middle American town, and what happens when cultured collide. Being from NYC, there are a dozen neighborhoods where the reactions are the same, without Hasidic Jews being in the picture.Which brings me to the author, a self-hating, assimilated Jew who takes upon himself the characterization of real Jews. Of course he hates them. Of course he thinks they are primitive. After all, Bloom has lived in SF - he has evolved beyond these strange people. And the hatred permeates the book.When Bloom dies and meets his maker, he will have to do some mighty fancy talking to explain this atrocity.
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