Doubting the Devout: The Ultra-Orthodox in the Jewish American Imagination by Nora L Rubel bilingual Olga Gershenson has written the

Olga Gershenson has written the first book about all Soviet narrative films dealing with the Holocaust from 1938 to 1991

annotated dissents

complex ambiguities that inhabit the heart

where death lurks around every corner

Doubting the Devout: The Ultra-Orthodox in the Jewish American Imagination by Nora L Rubel bilingual Olga Gershenson has written theBefore 1985, depictions of ultra Orthodox Jews in popular American culture were rare, and if they did appear, in films such as Fiddler on the Roof or within the novels of Chaim Potok, they evoked a nostalgic vision of Old World tradition. Yet the ordination of women into positions of religious leadership and other controversial issues have sparked an increasingly visible and voluble culture war between America's ultra Orthodox and non Orthodox Jews,