Jew Boy: A Memoir - Softcover

Kaufman, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0964374099 ISBN 13: 9780964374096

Publisher: Foxrock, 2001

Synopsis

Jew Boy tells the story of a young boy growing up in the complex shadow of his mother’s survival of the Holocaust. He struggles to comprehend what it means to be Jewish as he deals with the demons haunting his mother and attempts to escape his wretched home life by devoting himself to high school football. He eventually hitchhikes across the country, coming face-to-face with the very phantoms he has fled.

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Review:

He is able to combine humor and pathos with a cold-blooded sense of irony . . . frightening and deeply moving, Kaufman's memoir is a remarkable document (Publishers Weekly)

Book Description:

The autobiography of Alan Kaufman, who grew up in the Bronx, the son of a Jewish mother who had survived the Holocaust. Under the shadow of his mother's demons, he struggles with his Jewish identity, hitchhiking across the US only to summon again the phantoms he had sought to escape.

About this edition

• Publisher: Foxrock
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0964374099
• ISBN 13: 9780964374096
• Binding: Paperback