Am I A Jew?
Lost Tribes, Lapsed Jews, and One Man's Search for Himself

As a Jew, I found this book pretty intriguing. Within the Jewish community who actually constitutes a Jew is always a question that's up for grabs--and it always depends on who you're talking to, as the author figures out along his own spiritual way. I appreciated the author's look into more extreme......more

The world has some preconceived notions about Jews in general. They are thought to be smart, hardworking and rich. With the rising level of anti-Semitism in one’s own mind, other attributes like ‘wickedly clever’ and ‘cheating’ also tumble out of the closet. Jews are themselves conscious of the ster......more

I would give this book three stars, but the research and narration is good and sometimes humorous as told by the author himself. I like how the author narrated his travels and searches, which sometimes had an undertone of pure amazement and other times resentment when encountering a new Jewish group......more

I was initially disappointed with this book. I was anticipating something along the lines of A.J. Jacob's My Year of Living Biblically. Once I got past the fact that this book was not going to be a semi-comic look at one man's search for identity, I got really interested in the actual material. The......more

This is at once a memoir and a comprehensive study (through first-hand immersion) of Crypto-Jews and other people who discovered their Jewishness or became Jewish through a variety of methods.......more