An Orphan in History (Hardcover)

Paul Cown

ISBN 10: 1681629771 / ISBN 13: 9781681629773

Verlag: Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, 2002

Hardcover. 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. Thisorphan 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. After growing up as a fully assimilated Jew, Paul Cowan embarks upon a journey to discover and appreciate his true identity and heritage, traveling a path from his Park Avenue home to nineteenth-century Lithuania to a contemporary Israeli kibbutz. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781681629773

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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.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren:

Paul Cowan was an inspiring author of several books, including The Tribes of America, The Making of an Un-American, and, with his wife, Rachel Cowan, Mixed Blessings. He died in 1988 of complications from leukemia. Rachel Cowan wrote the Afterword for the paperback edition of An Orphan in History (originally published by Doubleday).

Rabbi Rachel Cowan directs the Jewish Life Program of the Nathan Cummings Foundation in New
York City. Ordained by Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, she teaches and lectures extensively. Her own attachment to psalms as a resource for healing grows from her experience with her late husband Paul Cowan's struggle to find hope in the face of a fatal illness.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: An Orphan in History (Hardcover)
Verlag: Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock
Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: new