How One Forgotten Novel Helped Me Return to Judaism
When I was growing up, we practiced Judaism only barely. ‘Remember Me to God’, by Myron S. Kaufmann, helped me understand why—and led me to choose differently for my own children, writes Nicholas Lemann.
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How One Forgotten Novel Helped Me Return to JudaismNicholas Lemann reflects on Remember Me to God, a little-known 1957 novel that helped him understand his parents’ identity. (Joseph McKeown/Picture Post/Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)When I was growing up, we practiced Judaism only barely. ‘Remember Me to God,’ by Myron S. Kaufmann, helped me understand why—and led me to choose differently for my own children.By Nicholas Lemann06.26.26 — Things Worth Remembering--:----:--Upgrade to ListenProduced by ElevenLabs using AI narration2READ IN APPWelcome to Things Worth Remembering, our weekly column in which writers share a literary treasure that all of us should commit to heart.
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