by Dan Jacobson
Northwestern University Press, 1999
Cloth: 978-0-8101-1704-4 | Paper: 978-0-8101-3020-3
Library of Congress Classification DS135.L53M455 1999
Dewey Decimal Classification 947.930049240092

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The Orthodox rabbi Heshel Melamed's sudden death by heart attack in 1919 set his widow and children free to leave Lithuania. In this deeply personal memoir, his grandson journeys to the nation after the fall of Communism, and his story is both a philosophical tableau of secularism, religion, and family and a communion with history's darkness-and, where possible, its illumination.

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