Hidden inheritance
Subtitle: family secrets, memory, and faith
By: Heidi B. Neumark
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9781501808319; 9781630881245
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst00958866; Clergy; Women clergy; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Influence; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Biography; Lutheran Church
Description: Heidi Neumark’s life changed forever when her daughter’s late-night online searching exposed a generation of family secrets. From a few computer keystrokes, Neumark discovered her hidden Jewish heritage—and uncovered hundreds of questions: Did her grandfather really die in a concentration camp? How did she never know her grandmother was a death-camp survivor? Why had the family history and faith been rejected and hidden? Heidi’s search for the truth quickly became more than a personal journey; it also became spiritual. It caused profound ponderings on her thirty-year vocation as a Lutheran pastor. It was a shocking revelation that her Jewish roots and successive family loss and trauma now suddenly and inherently connected her to the multi-ethnic, marginalized community she had been ministering to for three decades.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface: Googling Moses; title: Crossing over; title: Wittmund; title: Lu beck; title: New York; title: Berlin; title: Theresienstadt; title: Post-war; title: Afterword: Passover in the Promised Land.