Heshel's Kingdom : A Family, a People, a Divided Fate by Dan Jacobson
Heshel's Kingdom : A Family, a People, a Divided Fate

Dan Jacobson

Heshel's Kingdom : A Family, a People, a Divided Fate

Dan Jacobson

256 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction biography reflective slow-paced
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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 p...

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