Call number
799.7 Cowan
Subjects
Publication
Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1982.
Description
Sometimes we must look into the past in order to face the future. After growing up as a fully assimilated Jew, Paul Cowan embarked in his mid-thirties upon a journey to discover and appreciate his true identity and heritage. This"orphan in history" relates his search for these roots, detailing the path he took from his Park Avenue home to nineteenth-century Lithuania to a contemporary Israeli kibbutz, leading to remarkable personal discoveries that will move everyone who has yearned to know more about their past. An Orphan in History is a classically beautiful, inspiring story of how one man evolved from describing himself as "an American Jew" to "an American and a Jew." This story will inspire you to journey in search of your true self.
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Status
Available
Call number
ISBN
0385150555 / 9780385150552