Heshel's Kingdom (Jewish Lives) [Hardcover]

Dan Jacobson (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 243 pages
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press; 1 edition (April 30, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0810117045
• ISBN-13: 978-0810117044
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,014,148 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Sensitive search for family roots, April 11, 1999

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This review is from: Heshel's Kingdom (Jewish Lives) (Hardcover)

As a South African living in Europe with a similar and yet in many ways different background, I am able to identify with Mr Jacobson's sensitive account of his search for his family roots in Lithuania. The construction of the work itself is a masterpiece: first his perception of Lithuania from South Africa, then his childhood in South Africa and then the encounter with Lithuania, where he finds nothing concrete and yet conveys the atmosphere of what he finds so movingly. The touching letter to his grandfather and his dream at the end are full of feeling and yet not in the least sentimental. This book has deeply impressed me and given me a wonderfully tragic picture of Lithuania.