Marvelous Memoirs From: Judaism | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: Wolf, Arnold Jacob | Copyright American Jewish Congress Winter 2005. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Marvelous Memoirs

The Story of a Life. By AHARON APPELFELD. Translated by Aloma Halter. New York: Schocken, 2004.

Omaha Blues. By JOSEPH LELYVELD. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.

A Tale of Love and Darkness. By AMOS oz. Translated by Nicholas DeLange. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2004.

These three very different memoirs nevertheless share several distinct and important features. They are all primarily reminiscences of childhood. They all describe radically dys...

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