by dalitopia | Aug 13, 2023
“Dr. Gitenstein has written a remarkably readable book about the people surrounding a young Jewish girl growing up in the Deep South. It is a warm but thoroughly honest account. This is an unflinchingly courageous story of love, exasperation, argument, and...
by dalitopia | Mar 23, 2022
“An intimate portrait of the journey to forge an extraordinary identity, R. Barbara Gitenstein’s Experience is the Angled Road depicts how a girl born into one of a very few Jewish families in a tiny Alabama town grew up to have a life filled with path-breaking...
by dalitopia | Mar 23, 2022
“Dr. Gitenstein has provided us with a compelling glimpse into the deeply personal, sometimes painful life of an accomplished public person. She shares with us a heartwarming love story along with her struggle for emancipation from a cocoon of external expectations...
by dalitopia | Mar 23, 2022
“The powerfully courageous and heartrending account of a young Jewish woman coming of age in Florala, Alabama to become one of higher education’s most respected college presidents.”
