By Paul Cowan,Rabbi Rachel Cowan
occasionally we needs to check out the previous with a purpose to face the longer term.
After turning out to be up as an absolutely assimilated Jew, Paul Cowan embarked in his mid-thirties upon a trip to find and delight in his real id and history. This“orphan in historical past” relates his look for those roots, detailing the trail he took from his Park street domestic to nineteenth-century Lithuania to a modern Israeli kibbutz, resulting in notable own discoveries that might stream all people who has yearned to understand extra approximately their previous.
An Orphan in History is a classically attractive, inspiring tale of ways one guy developed from describing himself as “an American Jew” to “an American and a Jew.”
This tale will encourage you to trip looking for your precise self.
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