Written by Leslie Fiedler, Fiedler of the Roof is a book that tells an unfolding tragedy. He began his life with the deep-seated belief that the world could become whole, one. He favored a world community where all differences would be erased. He carried this out in his own family. He married a non-Jew and his eight children also married gentiles. None of his grandchildren are Jews. He speaks of two holocausts; one committed by Hitler and the Nazis and the other a secret one which he, and others like him, perpetrated against themselves. We can weep as we read his confession. “There is no one to say Kaddish for me when I die. I am not just a minimal Jew; my Judaism is nearly non-existent as I have only recently become aware, it is a terminal one as well, the last of a 4,000 year line.”
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