Milton Goldsmith's the Rabbi and the Priest

by Milton Goldsmith, Y.B. Arrarat

Milton Goldsmith (1861-1957) who also wrote under the pseudonym Astra Cielo, was the author of: Rabbi and Priest (1891), I Wonder How (1923), Fortunes and Dreams (1931) and Signs, Omens and Superstitions (1931).

221 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1988

Reviews

[Bea · Rating 3 out of 5]

I kept wanting a happy ending, but that was not to be...at least, not as I had hoped it would be. This is a story of two Jewish boys who are taken from their home and through difficult circumstances they end up as enemies...Mendel becomes a rabbi and Yaakov is raised in the priesthood and never knew he was born a Jew. This book covers the time from 1850-1882 and the persecutions of the Jews in Russia. The Rabbi and the Priest is a realistic historical portrait of Jewish life under the late Czars, when the oppressor was not the Commissar and Politburo, but Peasant, Church and Noble."