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Shires, Linda M. Coming Home: a Woman's Story of Conversion to Judaism.(Book Review)
Nov. 2003. 288p. index. Westview, $25 (0-8133-6596-1). 296.7.
Shires was raised in an upper-middle-class Protestant family in New England, then she married a Jew with three children from a previous marriage. For the next 20 years, as she informs us, "I passed as a Jew whenever I pleased, without knowing much about the religion or the traditions and without learning Hebrew." When she became pregnant in 1989, her husband asked her to raise their child in the Jewish faith, and she agreed. In 1999, she converted to the religion. The book's first two chapters ...
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