Authors: Barbara Kessel
ISBN-13: 9781584656203, ISBN-10: 1584656204
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Date Published: February 2007
Edition: New Edition
BARBARA KESSEL is Director of Administration of the Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York. A freelance writer of nonfiction and poetry for 25 years, her work has appeared in The New York Times, Hadassah Magazine, and Midstream.
Dramatic personal stories of the unexpected discovery of a Jewish heritage.
The stories in Suddenly Jewish are dramatic, funny, and at times heart-wrenching . . . it will definitely touch your soul.
Acknowledgments | xi | |
Prologue | 1 | |
Introduction | 6 | |
Crypto-Jews | 17 | |
Hidden Children | 39 | |
Children of Survivors | 72 | |
Adoptees | 98 | |
Conclusions | 115 | |
Notes | 129 |