Description
A visit to an abandoned Polish Jewish cemetery in 1993 launches Dan Oren's twenty-year search to solve the mystery of "Who is buried in Sarah's tomb?" A visit with a cousin unearths a breathtaking photograph of a Berlin family wedding from 1926 and leads to discovering their unimaginable post-wedding lives. An archivist in Prague discovers a secret uncle whose celebrity-filled life takes the reader from the halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the treasures of the Vatican. Finding and linking hitherto unknown family--from as ordinary any of us to as internationally-recognized as Philip Roth--this collection of gripping investigative accounts transforms genealogy into a world of exciting historical adventures. When a bishop, a minister, and a rabbi meet in a cemetery, it is not the set-up for a joke. Rather, The Wedding Photo becomes a dramatic and meaningful encounter of Christians and Jews with the darkest and the brightest sides of humanity.
Author: Dan a. Oren
Publisher: Rimmon Press
Published: 07/15/2018
Pages: 222
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780692139813
ISBN10: 0692139818
BISAC Categories:
- Reference | Genealogy & Heraldry
- History | Jewish | General
- History | Modern | 20th Century | Holocaust
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