
Hidden inheritance : family secrets, memory, and faith / Heidi B. Neumark.
Title:
Hidden inheritance : family secrets, memory, and faith / Heidi B. Neumark.
ISBN:
9781501808319
9781630881245
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Publication Information:
Nashville : Abingdon Press, [2015]
Physical Description:
xv, 219 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Contents:
Preface: Googling Moses -- Crossing over -- Wittmund -- Lübeck -- New York -- Berlin -- Theresienstadt -- Post-war -- Afterword: Passover in the Promised Land.
Summary:
Heidi Neumark’s life changed forever when her daughter’s late-night online searching exposed a generation of family secrets. From a few computer keystrokes, Neumark discovered her hidden Jewish heritage—and uncovered hundreds of questions: Did her grandfather really die in a concentration camp? How did she never know her grandmother was a death-camp survivor? Why had the family history and faith been rejected and hidden? Heidi’s search for the truth quickly became more than a personal journey; it also became spiritual. It caused profound ponderings on her thirty-year vocation as a Lutheran pastor. It was a shocking revelation that her Jewish roots and successive family loss and trauma now suddenly and inherently connected her to the multi-ethnic, marginalized community she had been ministering to for three decades.
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OCLC Number:
ocn915135786
Availability:
Rosemount - Robert Trail~1