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An Orphan in History: One Man S Triumphant Search for His Jewish Roots
Contributor(s): Cown, Paul (Author), Cowan, Rachel (Afterword by)
ISBN: 1681629771     ISBN-13: 9781681629773
Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing
OUR PRICE:   $28.79  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: October 2002
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Religious
- Religion | Judaism - General
Dewey: B
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6" W x 9" (1.19 lbs) 278 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region - Northeast U.S.
- Ethnic Orientation - Jewish
- Geographic Orientation - New York
- Locality - New York, N.Y.
- Religious Orientation - Jewish
 
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Publisher 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.


Contributor Bio(s): Cowan, Paul: -

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).

Cowan, Rachel: -

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.

Cown, Paul: -

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).