His master's voice. Robert kotlowitz 1st Edition Hardcover

Robert Kotlowitz, an earthy, poignant, and
 
wryly humorous novel about a Jewish cantor and
 
In the dog days of August 1944, as newspaper head-
 
lines are filled with the War abroad, a fourth term
 
for FDR, and the Orioles' chances of winning,
 
Sigmund R Safer, the music-loving introvert and
 
secretly agnostic cantor of the House of Israel con-
 
gregation, has problems closer to home A gentle
 
"greenhorn from the Old Country," Sigmund is
 
plagued by everything from the rebels in his congrega-
 
tion, who threaten to secede and found a new, less
 
fanatically observant congregation of their own
 
to his friend Barney Fribush, the raunchy, bullying
 
treasurer of the congregation and the largest manufac-
 
turer of men's rubber heels on the Atlantic seaboard,
 
who fancies Sigmund's wife to a sudden hormonal
 
upheaval in his choir of adolescent boys as they
 
rehearse for their annual performance during the High
 
Holidays to his racy teenage daughter, whose
 
Italian boyfriend, thank God, is still a secret to
 
his divided congregation in 1940s Baltimore
 
Sigmund's congregation
 
Can the House of Israel stand a little disruption Or
 
can the music, as Sigmund hopes, unman the congre-
 
 
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