Paul Cowan (1) (1940–1988)
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Paul Cowan was born in New York City on September 21, 1940. His Jewish ancestry had been largely kept from him by his parents, who were eager to assimilate into the society around them. As a child, he celebrated Christmas and was educated at Choate, an Episcopal school. He graduated from Harvard mehr anzeigen University in 1963 and married Rachel Cowan in 1965. Together they registered black voters in Mississippi and served in the Peace Corps in Ecuador. They began exploring Judaism in their mid-30s. He wrote several books during his lifetime including The Making of an Un-American, An Orphan in History, and Mixed Blessings: Overcoming the Stumbling Blocks in an Interfaith Marriage written with his wife. He was a staff writer for The Village Voice for more than 20 years. A collection of his articles for The Voice were collected in a book titled The Tribes of America. He died of complications from leukemia on September 26, 1988 at the age of 48. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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The book was written in a1987, when about 35 percent of American Jews married non-Jews; today the number is much higher and the intermarriage has become more accepted by families and many religious communities. It is not entirely clear how the Cowans define what it means to be Jewish; certainly many of the Jews in the book identify ethnically, but not religiously.
Paul Cowan is the first-person narrator; his wife, Rachel, was busy in rabbinical school. As explained in the preface, Paul wrote and Rachel edited. Paul is also the author of An Orphan in History.… (mehr)