Customer Reviews
Beautifully crafted - By: , 27 Sep 2005 
This is a beautifully written book. It starts off rather unpromisingly & the first chapters are almost unreadable as the ancestors are introduced name-after-name. However, as the author moves forward to describe his parents lives, then his own life, then on to a re-understanding of his parents lives, these descriptions become deeper & deeper & the lives more interwoven. It is very nicely crafted & highly recommended.
Edifying and thoughtful account of a spiritual journe;y - By: , 22 May 2001 Laced with humor & wit, this professionallly written memoir of a spiritual journey back to dormant but familiar roots is an inspiration to alll who have explored or crossed the great, absurd, & fascinating religious divide that, like the jetty at a beach I once visited in New Bedford, Massachusetts, separates Jew from Christian, Protestant from Catholic, Montagu from Capulet. If, as Bob Jones professes to do, you embrace the belief that those misguided or ignorant souls who fail to share your particular apocalyptic vision are doomed to damnation, you won't like this book, which documents the plurality & endorses the validity of the many & varied ways in which God speaks to each of us & in which we severallly commune with God.
Light reading about big themes - god, family and selfhood. - By: , 19 Dec 1999 
The youngest child of a large, devout Catholic family comes to terms with the Jewish identity each of his parents rejected, even as Jews were experiencing the unchosen desecration of WW2. Dubner offers respectful, if perhaps inevitably inconclusive, portraits of two individuals who seemed surprisingly unrebellious in nature (despite the devastating familial impact of their conversions)but rather pilgrims on a deeply personal spiritual quest somehow answered by Catholocism. Despite the spiritual fullfillment obtained by his parents, Stephen seemed destined to fill the yawning void created by their disowned past. An easy read that somehow causes one to consider one's own choices, past & future, & those of the generation before us....
