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In My Brother's Image: Twin Brothers Separated by Faith after the Holocaust

By Eugene L. Pogany

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Year
2001
ISBN
9781101664209
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (2846822 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-11-05 14:47:46
Biography & Autobiography; History; Religion & Spi

Description

In My Brother's Image is the extraordinary story of Eugene Pogany's father and uncle-identical twin brothers born in Hungary of Jewish parents but raised as devout Catholic converts until the Second World War unraveled their family. In eloquent prose, Pogany portrays how the Holocaust destroyed the brothers' close childhood bond: his father, a survivor of a Nazi internment camp, denounced Christianity and returned to the Judaism of his birth, while his uncle, who found shelter in an Italian monastic community during the war, became a Catholic priest. Even after emigrating to America the brothers remained estranged, each believing the other a traitor to their family's faith. This tragic memoir is a rich, moving family portrait as well as an objective historical account of the rupture between Jews and Catholics.

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