Shtetls to Shipsides: The Religious Roads of My Mother's People

This is my family story. Like every family story, it is unique, but at the same time, universal. We are all children of immigrants in some way. We are inheritors not only of genes but also of stories and values that have shaped us. We did not just grow out of nowhere. We came from a people, a people that may at times embarrass us or fill us with pride. They are ours and we take from them whatever it is that helps us to understand ourselves. Welcome to this "one man's family." It is my hope that this book will encourage you to better know your own family history, to reflect on it, and to embrace it and allow it to carry on to the next generation.