A review by j_lange
Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home by Harry Kemelman

5.0

This is definitely a product of the late 1960s. If you read this for the mystery, you are probably disappointed. It takes a long time to get to the murder, and the red-herrings aren't as interesting as previous books. Even the overall explanation seems a let down by the end. And yet....the synagogue politics, the conflicts between race, class, and gender that reflected the late 1960s connected so clearly to today that I enjoyed this book quite a bit.