An Orphan in History: One Man's Triumphant Search for His Jewish Roots
Sometimes we must look into the past in order to face the future.
After growing up as a fully assimilated Jew, Paul Cowan embarked in his mid-thirties upon a journey to discover and appreciate his true identity and heritage. This “orphan in history” relates his search for these roots, detailing the path he took from his Park Avenue home to nineteenth-century Lithuania to a contemporary Israeli kibbutz, leading to remarkable personal discoveries that will move everyone who has yearned to know more about their past.
An Orphan in History is a classically beautiful, inspiring story of how one man evolved from describing himself as “an American Jew” to “an American and a Jew.”
This story will inspire you to journey in search of your true self.
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Book details
- Author
- Paul Cown, Rabbi Rachel Cowan
- Imprint
- Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 288
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Religion › Judaism
- Topics
- Jewish identity · memoir · family history · cultural heritage · assimilation · Lithuania · kibbutz · self-discovery
- ISBN-13
- 9781580231350 (Paperback)9781681629773 (Hardcover)
About the author
PAUL COWAN was the author of several books, including Mixed Blessings, written with his wife Rachel Cowan, The Making of an Un-American, and The Tribes of America. Rachel Cowan wrote the Afterword for the paperback edition of An Orphan in History, originally published by Doubleday.
Cowan died in 1988 of complications from leukemia.