Robert jaffee publishing (3 résultats)

Paperback. Etat : New.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Oy vey! It's 1979 and a young Israeli girl finds love with an American doctor during a brief visit and risks it all to get married after a brief romance. Now the young couple must really get to know one another post-nuptials while trying to survive as fish-out-of-water in rural Texas. This true love story will have you laughing and crying through life's ups and downs while experiencing a marriage story like no other. What could Bob, a newly minted New York physician, and a 18year-old Israeli woman, Iris, have in common From New York to Tel Aviv and finally of all places, Odessa, Texas they develop a mutual love. While struggling to outline the boundaries of a marriage Iris is determined to find her own identity, apart from just a doctor's wife. She must master a new language, face antisemitism and fight the loneliness of being away from family and friends in a new land. Both see a new culture in Texas meeting boots, the Texas two-step and differing religious views. Follow Bob and Iris as they travel from the skyscrapers and mountains of New York to the hills of Jerusalem and on to the desert of Texas. Meet the people they knew, New Yorkers, Israelis, Texans, and situations of marriage, culture and self-identity that many of us share. This true story is of hard-won triumphs and unexplained tragedy.…

Paperback. Etat : New.