![]() ![]() Jacoby presents some finely crafted portraits: her grandfather Oswald, a brilliant young lawyer whose career dissolved under the pressure of a gambling addiction Edith, Oswald's chilly, critical wife Oswald's brother, Harold, a noted astronomer at Columbia University Uncle Ozzie, Robert's brother, an admittedly self-centered world-class bridge champion and Robert himself, a loving father who nevertheless almost ruined his family with his own gambling problem. ![]() over the last century and a half, beginning with the arrival of the author's German-Jewish great-grandfather in the mid 19th century. What, she wondered, had caused such a dramatic rupture in the family's history? What emerges from Jacoby's research is not only an account of family estrangement and denial but a social history of anti-Semitism and Jewish acculturation in the U.S. ![]() ![]() Her surprise intensified when she found out that Robert's brother and sister had also married Catholics and converted. Raised in a happy Catholic home, Jacoby was in her early 20s when she learned that Robert had been born a Jew. In this poignant mix of family history and memoir, journalist Jacoby (Wild Justice) unravels the thick fabric of lies that her father, Robert, wove around his past. ![]()
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