The Orthodox rabbi Heshel Melamed's sudden death by heart attack in 1919 set his widow and children free to leave Lithuania. In this deeply personal memoir, his grandson journeys to the nation after the fall of Communism, and his story is both a philosophical tableau of secularism, religion, and family and a communion with history's darkness-and, where possible, its illumination.
- ISBN10 0810117045
- ISBN13 9780810117044
- Publish Date 30 April 1999 (first published 16 February 1998)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 26 September 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Northwestern University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 1
- Language English