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Summary: Where is my Review?? Excellent book
Review: Loved this book. Informative and inspirational. I posted review which rebutted some of the points in previous reviews. My review was listed as being helpful by several people. My review suddenly disappeared from the web page (without notice to me). Nothing about my review violated Amazon policies and it is dismaying that this has occurred. Is Amazon skewing the reviews by deleting ones they don't agree with?Anyway, get the book. Its contents are "limited" to the subject advertised in the title. Complaints that it doesn't deal enough with other issues are off the mark. Those are subjects of other books.
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Summary: Where is my Review?? Excellent book
Review: Loved this book. Informative and inspirational. I posted review which rebutted some of the points in previous reviews. My review was listed as being helpful by several people. My review suddenly disappeared from the web page (without notice to me). Nothing about my review violated Amazon policies and it is dismaying that this has occurred. Is Amazon skewing the reviews by deleting ones they don't agree with? Anyway, get the book. Its contents are "limited" to the subject advertised in the title. Complaints that it doesn't deal enough with other issues are off the mark. Those are subjects of other books.
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Summary: A good read, but limited perspective
Review: The book has wonderful reflections on the life of Daniel Pearl, brutally assissinated by terrorists in Karachi (Pakistan). Daniel Pearl was of course the Wall Street Journalist. But it is a book only for Jews.
As a proud Jew myself, I think this book limits the scope of Daniel Pearl and its killing, and put in a narrow Jewish perspective. So I agree with the Montreal reader, and disagree with the "oversimplistic" teenage reader from Washington DC (soulseeker). I think all the world felt affection for Daniel Pearl, and books such as this tend to undermine this global affection. His message of greater understanding stands in contradiction with this book.
As the teenage reader from DC underscores, it is a book that will unfortunately attract only Jews, further undermining the memory of Daniel Pearl.
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Summary: irrelevant/offensive comments
Review: The comments that the book should have been more inclusive are, I agree, ridiculous. There was a specific purpose to this book and that is what the book should be judged against. If you want to read more about Daniel Pearl, there are other sources. You could read the book, Mighty Heartby Mariane Pearl and Sarah Crichton. Pearl was killed because he was a Jew and there is good purpose in writing a book exploring what being a Jew means. Yes it may only be most interesting for Jews but who said there is anything wrong with a book for a specific group? I needn't go into examples of other books, religious/ethnic or not that are written with a certain audience in mind. I take offense when the reviewers write that he was so much more than just being a Jew....as if that is some small unconnected part of him. Based on what I have read about him, being a Jew informed his being and his actions (even without being "religious"). There must be a reason that those were his last words. It is offensive that reviewers diminish that.
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Summary: Form Follows Function
Review: To add to the debate- this book was a project inspired by a 13 yeard old girl just before the rite of passage that brought her to Jewish adulthood. Detractors below complain about the book's "limited perspective" and seem to accuse Daniel's parents (who carried this project through) of exploiting their son's name to explore the mosaic of Jewish perspectives. Perhaps if this book was intended to be a life history, collection of Daniel's work, or tome of political essays exploring the region, their critiques would have some merit. Instead, this book does exactly what it has set out to do-- it has gathered together the views of Jewish individuals who had all been affected by Daniel's death, and who were made to think about their Judaism through the lens of Daniel's last words. My one complaint is that the spectrum of Jews selected largely neglect the voices of Jews of color, who deal with yet a different set of issues in claiming their Jewishness every day.
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Summary: Form Follows Function
Review: To add to the debate- this book was a project inspired by a 13 yeard old girl just before the rite of passage that brought her to Jewish adulthood. Detractors below complain about the book's "limited perspective" and seem to accuse Daniel's parents (who carried this project through) of exploiting their son's name to explore the mosaic of Jewish perspectives. Perhaps if this book was intended to be a life history, collection of Daniel's work, or tome of political essays exploring the region, their critiques would have some merit. Instead, this book does exactly what it has set out to do-- it has gathered together the views of Jewish individuals who had all been affected by Daniel's death, and who were made to think about their Judaism through the lens of Daniel's last words. My one complaint is that the spectrum of Jews selected largely neglect the voices of Jews of color, who deal with yet a different set of issues in claiming their Jewishness every day.
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Summary: Inspiring and Insightful
Review: While no one can approximate the pain of the Pearls, this book takes their unfortunate experience pain and transforms it into a book of hope and inspiration for all of us. While this is a particularly Jewish book, it procides a great deal of insight to those who are in an interfaith relationship and the American public in general. One entry is more powerful than the next. I read it from cover to cover in one sitting but I know I will continue to return to it regularly.
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