Jacob's Voices: Reflections of a Wandering American Jew

by Jerold S. Auerbach and Professor Jerold S Auerbach

Book Overview

A three-generation narrative, Jacob's Voices is the autobiography of an American Jew who discovered in Israel a way to unravel the legacy of Jewish ambivalence transmitted by his immigrant grandfather and American father.

Jerold S. Auerbach explores the uncomfortable space--remote from Jewish memory-- between the Eastern European shtetl and American suburbia. Members of his "third generation" of American Jews were taught to invert...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080932055X
• ISBN13: 9780809320554
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"