Jacob's Voices: Reflections of a Wandering American Jew

A three-generation narrative, 'Jacob’s Voices' is the autobiography of an American Jew who discovered in Israel a way to unravel the legacy of Jewish ambivalence transmitted by his immigrant grandfather and American father.

Jerold S. Auerbach explores the uncomfortable space — remote from Jewish memory — between the Eastern European shtetl and American suburbia. Members of his "third generation" of American Jews were taught to invert the classic formula of Jewish emancipation: they learne…