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won the National Book Award.
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Goodbye, Columbus is a set of stories mostly about young Jewish
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protagonists living in a Jewish context in Jewish communities in
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Newark or in New York.
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It included a story called "The Conversion of the Jews" in which a
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young boy (actually, well, a little older than young boy,
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maybe he's a teenager), Ozzie Freedman,
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becomes extremely agitated
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because all his questions to his family and
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to his rabbi about Christianity are dismissed;
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he finally comes to be punished for asking these kinds of questions.
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So, Ozzie stages his revolt