A Legacy: Echoes of Loss and Healing in a Jewish-American Family

How Our Family Secrets Live Within Us... Sometimes I think I married my grandfather. With these intriguing words Gittel begins her memoir about colorful characters like the author's adventurous grandfather, who practiced medicine all over the country, from the bayous of Louisiana to the silver mines of Colorado to the brownstones of New York. He was once the only doctor, only pharmacist, and only Jewish man in tiny Venango, Nebraska. We meet her mysterious great-grandfather, who disappeared...