The Measure of His Grief
The Measure of His Grief is a novel by Lisa Braver Moss, published in 2010. It was the first novel ever to explore Jewish circumcision.
| Title | The Measure of His Grief |
| Author | Lisa Braver Moss |
| Pages | 352 |
| Format | 5.25 x 8 " |
| Edition | Notim Press |
| First Edition | November 1, 2010 |
| ISBN | ISBN 978-1453720257 |
Abstract
The novel weaves medical and religious information into the compelling story of Dr. Sandy Waldman, a Jewish physician in Berkeley who finds himself waging a campaign against the one Jewish tradition that’s still observed even in the most iconoclastic of towns and among the most assimilated of Jews: circumcision.
The son of Holocaust survivors, Sandy cannot turn his back on his heritage; he must find a way to reconcile his anti-circumcision stand with his Jewish identity. But the more Sandy learns, the more startled he is by what he finds: the tissue lost to circumcision is highly erogenous; circumcisions as practiced today are far more radical than they were in Biblical times; and around the world, tens of thousands of men are currently engaged in the astonishing, but under-reported, enterprise of foreskin "restoration".