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Aug 10, 2015 · Herman Wouk’s Marjorie Morningstar is the ultimate novel about that modern paradox, chronicling the years that a vivacious girl spends attempting to live differently from the way her parents and ...
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Released from the social constraints of her traditional Jewish family, and thrown into the glorious, colorful world of theater, Marjorie finds herself entangled in a powerful affair with the man destined to become the greatest--and the most destructive--love of her life.Rich with humor and poignancy, Marjorie Morningstar is a classic love story ...
Jul 14, 2021 · July 2021. When Hadassah Magazine asked readers, authors and scholars about their favorite novels by or about Jewish women, Herman Wouk’s Marjorie Morningstar was one of the most frequently mentioned. The coming-of-age tale about the dreams, loves and choices of Jewish New Yorker Marjorie Morgenstern, originally published in 1955, remains a ...
Marjorie Morningstar, novel by Herman Wouk, published in 1955, about a woman who rebels against the confining middle-class values of her industrious American Jewish family. Her dream of being an actress ends in failure. She ultimately forfeits her illusions and marries a conventional man with whom
Brief Synopsis. Read More. While working as a counselor at a summer camp, college-student Marjorie Morgenstern falls for 32-year-old Noel Airman, a would-be dramatist working at a nearby summer theater. Like Marjorie, he is an upper-middle-class New York Jew (born 'Ehrman'), but has fallen away from his roots, and Marjorie's parents object ...
Irving Rapper. Director. Herman Wouk. Novel. Everett Freeman. Screenplay. While working as a counselor at a summer camp, college-student Marjorie Morgenstern falls for 32-year-old Noel Airman, a would-be dramatist working at a nearby summer theater. Like Marjorie, he is an upper-middle-class New York Jew, but has fallen away from his roots, and ...
