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Snow in August is a 2001 film adapted by Richard Friedenberg based on the New York Times best selling novel by Pete Hamill. Featuring a young boy from an Irish Catholic neighborhood of Brooklyn in 1947, the film follows the unlikely friendship that evolves between 11-year-old Michael and a Czechoslovakian Rabbi that stirs up the ...
May 1, 1997 · Pete Hamill. 3.97. 7,026 ratings824 reviews. Set in a working-class Brooklyn neighborhood in 1947, this poignant tale revolves around two of the most endearing characters in recent fiction: an 11-year-old Irish Catholic boy named Michael Devlin and Rabbi Judah Hirsch, a refugee from Prague.
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Aug 12, 2001 · Snow in August: Directed by Richard Friedenberg. With Stephen Rea, Peter Anthony Tambakis, Lolita Davidovich, Adam MacDonald. A Catholic boy befriends a Jewish rabbi after a Jewish merchant was beaten up by racist thugs and now the boy and his mother are fearful of their lives.
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Jun 11, 2013 · Snow in August is the story of that unlikely friendship -- and of how the neighborhood reacts to it. For Michael, the rabbi opens a window to ancient learning and lore that rival anything in Captain Marvel.
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Snow in August is a 1997 novel by American journalist, essayist, and novelist Pete Hamill. Set in Brooklyn in 1946, it traces the development of an unlikely friendship between a Catholic altar boy, Michael Devlin, and the Orthodox Rabbi Judah Hirsch.
A novel by Pete Hamill about a boy's coming of age in 1946 Brooklyn amid a blizzard and the aftermath of World War II. The story explores themes of death, violence, religion, and ethnicity through the eyes of Michael Devlin, an altar boy who encounters a Jewish rabbi and a gang of bullies.
May 7, 1997 · SNOW IN AUGUST. by Pete Hamill ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 7, 1997. bookshelf. shop now. The eighth novel by New York journalist/now New York Post editor Hamill (Loving Women, 1989; the memoir A Drinking Life, 1994, etc.) finds him as readable as ever.
