An Orphan in History: Retrieving a Jewish LegacyDoubleday, 1982 - 246 Seiten You are about to embark on a wondrous voyage through time and culture. The journey carries you from the privileged world of Park Avenue to nineteenth-century Lithuania, turn-of-the-century Chicago, a contemporary Israeli kibbutz, and the timeless world of New York City's Lower East Side. Journey's end occurs in the Jewish year 5743 on Manhattan's Upper West Side, just crosstown and a lifetime away from where Paul Cowan's complicated, halting trip toward faith begins. Paul Cowan grows up unaware that he is a descendant of rabbis. In one generation five thousand years of religion and culture have been lost. Like millions of immigrant families, Lou and Polly Cowan pay for the prosperity with their pasts. When they die in a tragic fire, Paul begins a search for that part of his parents that had perished in America. The quest for an ancestral legacy by the American, Paul Cowan, becomes a rite of passage for the Jew who emerges Saul Cohen. Relatives like Jacob Cohen, the used cement bag dealer, and Modie Spiegel, Sr., the mail order magnate, come to life in the author's warm and touching recreation of an odyssey through immigrant America. - Jacket flap. |
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... rituals of mourning . They helped Rachel's mother cook and take care of the kids as if those tasks were routine matters of ... ritual slaughterers ) whom my father had wanted me to describe . I had another objective . Since meeting Bert ...
... rituals of mourning . They helped Rachel's mother cook and take care of the kids as if those tasks were routine matters of ... ritual slaughterers ) whom my father had wanted me to describe . I had another objective . Since meeting Bert ...
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... ritual slaughterer ; when the tradesmen stopped their work to go to the mikvah - the ritual bath - and then to pray ; when the en- tire town was already half - bathed in the amber glow of Shabbos . It was , he said , a world in which ...
... ritual slaughterer ; when the tradesmen stopped their work to go to the mikvah - the ritual bath - and then to pray ; when the en- tire town was already half - bathed in the amber glow of Shabbos . It was , he said , a world in which ...
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... ritual objects that pious Jews put on their arms and head every morning when they say their morning prayers . In appearance , it was just a battered black box and a maze of leather straps . But I saw it as a message from the past . I ...
... ritual objects that pious Jews put on their arms and head every morning when they say their morning prayers . In appearance , it was just a battered black box and a maze of leather straps . But I saw it as a message from the past . I ...
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