The Wedding Photo

A visit to an abandoned Polish Jewish cemetery in 1993 launches Dan Oren's twenty-year search to solve the mystery of "Who is buried in Sarah's tomb?" A visit with a cousin unearths a breathtaking photograph of a Berlin family wedding from 1926 and leads to discovering their unimaginable post-wedding lives. An archivist in Prague discovers a secret uncle whose celebrity-filled life takes the reader from the halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the treasures of the Vatican. Finding and linking hitherto unknown family-from as ordinary any of us to as internationally-recognized as Philip Roth-this collection of gripping investigative accounts transforms genealogy into a world of exciting historical adventures. When a bishop, a minister, and a rabbi meet in a cemetery, it is not the set-up for a joke. Rather, The Wedding Photo becomes a dramatic and meaningful encounter of Christians and Jews with the darkest and the brightest sides of humanity.

Product details

• Authors: Dan A. Oren
• Assisted by: Meghan Healey (Editor)
• Publisher: Rimmon Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.07.2018
• EAN: 9780692139813
• ISBN: 978-0-692-13981-3
• No. of pages: 222
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 484 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Geschichte der Religion, Bezug zu Juden und jüdischen Gruppen, Enzyklopädien und Nachschlagewerke, Familiengeschichte, Ahnenforschung, HISTORY / Holocaust, HISTORY / Jewish, Reference, REFERENCE / Genealogy & Heraldry