Bouncing Back - And Forward: From Immigrant Household to Cambridge Fellowship

by Stefan C Reif and Stefan C. Reif

Book Overview

The tale of how a boy of working-class, immigrant Jewish parents in Edinburgh became a Cambridge scholar of international repute. Stefan Reif traces the numerous obstacles encountered as he struggled to make a life that released him from poverty and anonymity but maintained the best of Ashkenazi Judaism. We follow his adventures as a pupil subjected to the rigours of a Scottish Presbyterian education, as well as the demands of traditional Jewish learning...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912676524
• ISBN13: 9781912676521
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Vallentine Mitchell
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"