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The award-winning New York Times columnist and past foreign correspondent converts a compassionate yet discerning eyes on the legacy of his own family - especially his mother's - to be able to understand more profoundly the nature of modern Jewish experience. Through his psychologically lucid prose, we relive the anomie of European Jews following the Holocaust, following them from Lithuania to South Africa, Britain, america, and Israel. Cohen illuminates the uneasy resonance of the racism his family observed moving into apartheid-era South Africa and the ambivalence thought by his Israeli cousin when tasked with policing the occupied Western Standard bank. He explores the pervasive Jewish sense of "otherness" and detects it has been a significant factor in his family's background of manic major depression. This story of remembrance and repression, suicide and resilience, moral ambivalence and uneasily developing loyalties (religious, ethnic, national) both explains to an unflinching personal storyline and contributes an important chapter to the ongoing narrative of Jewish life.
