Loving Strangers: A Camphorwood Chest, a Legacy, a Son Returns

Jay Prosser has written a family memoir that at its core, builds a bridge across the terrible divides of our times. It’s a Jewish book, but not just a Jewish book. It moves Jewish writing away from its customary setting of the Holocaust and Europe and transports Jewish identity to Iraq, India, China and Singapore: places and cultures that most people (including Jews themselves) don’t associate with Jewish identity. It shows Jews integrating with others, not divisive, not separate: not antag...