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Abraham A. Rothberg, born on January 14, 1922 in Brooklyn, was a fiction and nonfiction writer, journalist, editor, and teacher. His father, Louis, was a garment worker who emigrated from Russia and died when Rothberg was young; his mother, Lottie, was an Austrian who supported her family through secretarial work. Rothberg began his higher education at Brooklyn College, where he met his future wife, Esther Conwell. Conwell was then in the midst of her undergraduate and graduate education, which lead to a long and distinguished career in both the academic and business worlds of chemistry and physics. After graduating in 1942, Rothberg spent time in the Army Signal Corps. Later on, he attended the University of Iowa and graduated with a Master's degree in creative writing in 1947. He obtained a Ph.D. in English literature from Columbia in 1952, having written a dissertation, entitled "The House that Jack Built," that dealt with Jack London's life and works.
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A Jewish-American man returns from World War II to an excruciating situation: he must tell his parents and his fiancee that he is settling in Israel. During their heartbreaking reunion, he and his family confront what it means to belong and debate how the Jewish people can achieve it.
After a bout of cardiac insufficiency, a middle-aged, successful lawyer chafes against the restrictive conditions of his recovery and begins to rely on his young son for reassurance.
A middle-aged writer attends a friend's party while his wife is away with the children, but he struggles to enjoy his time as he finds himself caught uncomfortably in the middle of the arguments, declarations of love, and existential crises of the other guests.