A coat of many colours: Memoirs of a Jewish experience

by Chaim Raphael

A uniquely Jewish memoir from someone who was a British civil servant, academic, and author. Chapters cover his early childhood recollections of World War I, folk memory and Lithuanian tradition, early Zionism, American Jews, the Holocaust, the state of Israel, and lots of topics in between. Part history, part autobiography, told with "... a stylish erudition and characteristic wit and irony that mark this book as a lively portrayal of what it means to be a Jew."

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1979

About the author

Writer on Jewish history and culture, who also wrote crime thrillers under the pseudonym Jocelyn Davey.