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    Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home
    Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home
    Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home
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    Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home

    Written by Harry Kemelman

    Narrated by George Guidall

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    With his absorbing mystery series, best-selling author Harry Kemelman transports you to the closely-knit Jewish community at Barnard's Crossing, a small city near Boston. Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home portrays the unassuming Rabbi Small joyously preparing to celebrate Passover. However, the holiday season is marred when local violence, racism, and misplaced pride run amok. Miffed over the sanctuary's new seating policy, several families are secretly planning to start their own temple in an unoccupied mansion in the country. When some teenagers break into the house for a party-and one ends up dead-the temple plot is interrupted. Suddenly Rabbi Small must discover what really happened, or the whole community will self-destruct. Savvy Rabbi Small combines earthly chutzpah and divine wisdom to solve the mysterious death that has the entire police force befuddled. Personally approved for this unabridged recording by the author's estate, veteran narrator George Guidall breathes life into the persistent rabbi and his ambitious congregants.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateNov 16, 2012
    ISBN9781470338213
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    Harry Kemelman

    Harry Kemelman (1908–1996) was best known for his popular rabbinical mystery series featuring the amateur sleuth Rabbi David Small. Kemelman wrote twelve novels in the series, the first of which, Friday the Rabbi Slept Late, won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel. This book was also adapted as an NBC made-for-TV movie, and the Rabbi Small Mysteries were the inspiration for the NBC television show Lanigan’s Rabbi. Kemelman’s novels garnered praise for their unique combination of mystery and Judaism, and with Rabbi Small, the author created a protagonist who played a part-time detective with wit and charm. Kemelman also wrote a series of short stories about Nicky Welt, a college professor who used logic to solve crimes, which were published in a collection entitled The Nine Mile Walk. Aside from being an award-winning novelist, Kemelman, originally from Boston, was also an English professor.

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    • 4/5
      i liked the mystery in this one and comments on social issues like civil rights and drugs.
    • 5/5
      amateur-sleuth, law-enforcement, small-town, Jewish, Jewish-law, murder, murder-investigation, suspicion*****I think that the publisher's blurb should be rewritten after all these years. Originally published June 1, 1969, this story is timely for 2021 just as it was then. The attitude of the Jewish and non-Jewish people of Barnard's Crossing, Massachusetts might just surprise some of the current protesters.The story begins with synagogue politics near Passover and moves into murder and marijuana sales with local college students in the middle. The local police tend toward a nonresident, but Rabbi Small has no such agenda. Good story and particularly apt.George Guidall is well suited as narrator.
    • 5/5
      This mystery is a product of its time and does show its age. However, if you are willing to step back in time, then it is a good mystery with a few red herrings. I admit that those pulled me off track sometimes.One of the things I like about this series is that the murders don't happen so fast that you wonder how the town remains populated. It has been a few years since we last visited with the rabbi; he's in his sixth year in the town. Suspicion in the murder of a young man falls upon some of the younger members of the congregation, so the rabbi gets involved. Add in drugs (marijuana, oh, the horror) and civil rights and you get a picture of the society in the late 1960s.The author again plays fair with the audience and the mystery is solvable with the information the reader gets. While written in 1969, I think the book could appeal to readers who enjoy period mysteries or cozy mysteries.
    • 4/5
      I thought that this 3rd book in the Rabbi Small series was more dated than the previous books, though the late 1960's suburban perspectives on marijuana and the civil rights movement was thought-provoking. I still like Rabbi Small and the police chief Hugh Lanigan. Perhaps one reason why I didn't think that this book was quite as good as the first two was the amount of time spent on the internal politics of the synagogue - my mother would have enjoyed it more than I did!
    • 4/5
      Also in the third story of Rabbi Small his job in the community is at stake. He has been working as a rabbi for six years now. Since the community leaders change annually, he always has an opposition first, before he sits firmly in the saddle again. This time the offsprings of his opponents are involved in a murder. Rabbi Small quickly realizes that they have nothing to do with it and is trying to get them out of the investigation as quickly as possible. These young Jewish parishioners stand by their Rabbi and the close bond with their mothers they can convince the board members of the community that they have a good rabbi.This story is again amusingly written and it was a fast reading.
    • 4/5
      i liked the mystery in this one and comments on social issues like civil rights and drugs.
    • 2/5
      The silly politics described in the Rabbi Small series may be endemic in some congregations but stereotyping in general irks me making it hard for me to enjoy the plot.
    • 3/5
      Wasn't expecting to like this - given to me by my mother-in-law - but enjoyed the story. The insights into Jewish religious practice were illuminating for a gentile :)
    • 3/5
      Meyer Paff og menighedens formand Ben Gorfinkle er uenige og Paff undersøger muligheden for at starte en ny synagoge. Men der sker et drab i det hus, Paff har kig på og rabbineren David Small bliver nødt til at undersøge det.Rabbineren har været rabbiner for det lille samfund i 6 år og bestyrelsen overvejer at give ham det syvende år som et sabbat-år og desuden forlænge kontrakten, måske endda på livstid.Nydelig skildring af et lille samfund
    • 4/5
      This was enjoyable. The mystery was pretty easy, but I like it for all the little insights into Jewish ethics and culture. Rabbi Small is my kind of guy. Little bits of wisdom amongst tons of common sense.